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This is the final nail in HD-DVD's coffin..]]>Jan 3rd 2007 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 4th 2007 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
And the final nail in blah-ray is Sony. So I guess they'll both die...?

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I am partial to blu-ray but I love hearing stories like this anyway. Keep up the good work.

If I buy an HD movie, I expect to be able to watch it on all my devices, be they PC's, portables or network devices. That means digital extraction.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!]]>Jan 3rd 2007 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
For me, not having DRM is a major factor is making the purchase. I think more and more there are people like me who are aware of what DRM is and how it cripples them from using a purchased product in a way that's useful to them. And once our dollars pour into it, the Jeanie doesn't get put back in the bottle. Right now cracking a dvd is the easiest thing ever, but it doesn't stop the movie studios from releasing media on it. I can only imagine/hope HD DVD will be the same way. Once people realize they don't have as much control over blu-ray content, their spending dollars will go other places. Personally I think it's a travesty that sony expects me to buy the dvd, buy the blu-ray, buy the UMD. Just give me one copy of the movie and let me do whatever I want with it.]]>Jan 3rd 2007 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
And how does that happen on a stand alond dvd player? Am I now gonna need to somehow get firmware updates for my (thoeretical) hd dvd player? I don't see it happening that way. ]]>Jan 3rd 2007 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 3rd 2007 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
The HD-DVD players could follow such a route. Upon sticking in a new movie, if you don't update the firmware on your HD-DVD player (which is on the HD-DVD disk itself, so you don't have to upgrade), then you can't watch the movie.

Which is one of the reasons why I am staying far, far away from HD-DVD and Blue-Ray. I don't want people mucking around with the stuff I bought just because they feel they still have some ownership on it.]]>Jan 4th 2007 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 3rd 2007 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 3rd 2007 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
Ergo, this crack is perfectly legal and will stand. Nevermind everywhere else in the world that doesn't have DMCA-style legislation, meaning that, in those jurisdictions, people can crack any copy protections till their heart's content.]]>Jan 3rd 2007 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 3rd 2007 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 3rd 2007 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 3rd 2007 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 3rd 2007 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
Quite so, old chap!
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This IS entirely possible.]]>Jan 3rd 2007 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 3rd 2007 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 3rd 2007 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
If an app shows up in the market that allows users to circumvent the copy protection, the key can be traced back to you. With that nice papertrail, it won't be long before lawyers and possibly law enforcement is knocking on your door...

... but at least your screen name will be in a story on digg for a few hours.]]>Jan 4th 2007 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
This isn't quite right. Key revocation means that a particular player will no longer be able to access new HD-DVD discs. This means that once the key to the player muslix64 used is revoked (I thought it was PowerDVD...) he'll no longer be able to extract volume keys with it. But there are lots of other software players that can probably be used in similar ways.

And pirated movies can never be revoked, since once the data is unencrypted once it will presumably be redistributed on the net (and on burned discs) in a DRM-free format.]]>Jan 4th 2007 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
Simon, actually, a EULA cannot specially infringe and take away your personal rights. It falls under the Federal Reserve Regulation AA. It would be considered "unfair business"

IANAL but I hope to be]]>Jan 3rd 2007 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
I can't believe every single player will have it's own key, so revoking a whole generation of one particular player will not only hurt the pirates but mostly a lot of legit customers. They will scream and kick and sue the hell out of the smartasses who sold and then revoked their players. And once they get over it they will swear never to buy DRM-ridden stuff again.

Great way to shot yourself in the foot.
Hail to the demise of the content nazis.
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You need the key. The key is obtained via a compromised player (in this case Cyberlinks) and then applied. This is not a crack per-se and will be nothing more than a trial run for the key revocation process. I think it's funny that it was a compromised PowerDVD that exposed the CSS keys and now Cyberlink blows it again. Quality not exactly job-1 at Cyberlink.

Cyberlink will prop a player that no longer exposes the keys. The keys that were exposed will be revoked. I suspect newer titles will not play on the compromised player.]]>Jan 4th 2007 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 4th 2007 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 4th 2007 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
Anywho, it'll be an uphill battle forevermore. The programmers creating DRMs of sorts are never going to be of greater skill than those programmers who are trying to be subversive to those ends.]]>Jan 4th 2007 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
So how did we end up this way? Like Yoda says, "Fear is the path to the Dark Side."

The content providers will always fear the next technological wave. In 1977 MPAA president Jack Valenti gave an impassioned, inflammatory speech to Congress demanding that VCRs be pulled from US shelves; Jack insisted VCRs were insidious tools designed by Japan to destroy America!

At the time what came of that paranoia was the FBI Warning that still clutters the beginning of every major video release made since. That and a bit later, Macrovision -- the apex of "copy protection" for analog video, itself such a weak technique that latter-day VCRs actually possessed a Macrovision detector to remind them to pretend they couldn't copy Macrovision tapes.

Along comes CSS in 1996, a move foisted on the world by Hollywood. Europeans are no big fans of CSS and routinely defeat it, either by releasing "Region 0" titles or by building all-region DVD players. Do they do this to commit piracy? Hardly! Europe remains a strong market for canned video. They simply entertain fewer illusions about the "benefits" of being divided into five marketing territories by film distributors, each with its own region code.

Within the US CSS is doted upon -- a satisfying illusion indeed. Surely it's what keeps the stock prices of Sony and Warner up, and that's what's really important in a country of 401k plans and mutual funds isn't it? DeCSS was thus a big shock to Middle America and its politicians, precisely because it promised to destabilize blue-chip investments.

The DeCSS backlash was AACS -- an exquisitely overwrought mess that was primarily intended to convince 401k holders to invest in studio-parent stocks. As a political symbol it is like a 600-mile border fence -- comforting to those in power, a slap in the face to everyone else. And as we now see with DeHDDVD, not so much an impregnable barrier as yet another waste of the public's wealth.

AACS is really the limit of how complex and invasive a content-protection protocol can get with our present software-engineering skills and our present international climate; breach it even a little bit and there is no way it could be bolstered or replaced in time to salvage the reputation of certain blue-chip stocks.

Result? Massive divestiture of studios by parent corporations, mainly to regain stockholder faith. Studios selling their names to each other for a pittance as their assets auction for ten cents on the dollar to pay off massive debts remaining from the orgy of leveraged buyouts in the 1990s. And Bill Gates emerging as the biggest asset-holder in Hollywood. OMIGAWD! GATES AT THE GATES!]]>Jan 4th 2007 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Thanks for the good read, John!!!]]>Jan 4th 2007 3:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
Now AACS discs have a "hard-coded private key"? Gimme a break and learn about cryptography.

And those who say "They can't revoke shit because only the title keys or volume keys or 'master keys' will be published" should maybe stop talking out of their ####, should read the AACS docs at aacsla.com and learn about sequence keys and traitor tracing.

It's incredible all the nonsense that it said since BackupHDDVD has been released. And btw, this software does NOTHING to break AACS, everything in backupHDDVD is publicly available on aacsla.com.]]>Jan 4th 2007 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 4th 2007 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
Some creative googling should get you an answer. And no, I can't post it here for ethical reasons (CISSP/CISM).]]>Jan 4th 2007 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Hex is 0-9 and A-F... 15 chars total

there are 32^15 possible combinations for the Keys. Each key is 16 bytes long (from the FAQ.txt) so to generate a table of all the possible keys, you would need (32^15 * 16) bytes of storage. Thats over 549,755,813,888 TB, if my math is correct.

Perhaps a Brute force decryptoion tool could be made?

00000000000000000000000000000000, 00000000000000000000000000000001, ...
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFE,
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF]]>Jan 4th 2007 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 4th 2007 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 5th 2007 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/Jan 6th 2007 3:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/what-exactly-does-backuphddvd-do-oh-and-version-1-0-is-release/
I'm just not looking forward to having to bounce the ethernet via a US proxy to watch a film, once they decide to wreck the grey market trading of films from other countries. That will just be a pain in the arse. Probably just download them instead... After all, you could get what, 20 to 50 MP4 movies on a single BluRay disc?]]>Mar 15th 2007 3:56PM