SlySoft claims to have cracked BD+, naysayers fall quiet

We haven't broken down the minutes and seconds or anything, but we're fairly certain that July 10th wasn't exactly ten years ago. Nevertheless, the so-called "impenetrable" BD+ DRM scheme has reportedly already been subverted, and it's no shock to hear that the folks behind SlySoft had a hand in it. Regrettably, there's not a lot of details beyond that just yet, but according to the outfit's CEO, the software is ready to rock and should be released before the end of 2007. Chalk (yet another) one up to the hackers.

[Via HighDefDigest, thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[mfed3 @ Oct 30th 2007 3:42AM]

what he said ^. to everyone who was waiting for bd+, suck it. blu ray sucks and so does sony.

[David @ Oct 30th 2007 3:51AM]

Princess Leia: The more you tighten your grip, Sony, the more star systems will slip through your fingers ...

[Kaminix @ Oct 30th 2007 3:52AM]

This shouldn't be possible, should it? From what I heard BD+ was a protection that could easily be updated and thus "uncracked", was it not?
Anyway, that's less problems for me!

[Othello @ Oct 30th 2007 5:15AM]

You honestly think cracking DRM 'shouldn't be possible'? Just a little heads up for ya: anything that can be made can be unmade.

[Kaminix @ Oct 30th 2007 5:28AM]

Yes, but I thought the thing made here, the BD+, could be changed later to have been "un-cracked" with the next BluRay film release. In other words, they would've just cracked all movies released up until now.

That's also what I said.

[Evan @ Oct 30th 2007 3:22PM]

That is what has happened with almost all DRM on any media format. Once it is cracked often times it is tweaked and changed so that crack no longer works on future titles.

That is definitely nothing special for BD+

Then the hackers commence breaking the newer DRM in a never-ending cycle which proves DRM only hinders the average consumer and not the actual people who will break it to sell/spread illegal copies.

[Dustin @ Oct 30th 2007 3:57AM]

I think the point is, the methodology is valid.
A disc only needs to be ripped once to be disseminated.

[p.flynn2 @ Oct 30th 2007 3:57AM]

not what he said ^. blu-ray owns, drm sucks. blue lasers win simply because they look pretty f'n sweet. that and they play games. movies + games > just movies. plus, the ps3 is just so damn sexy in its glossy black exterior. the xbox looks like a cheap mcdonalds happy meal toy. white plastic loses.

if you cant tell.. i am simply picking a format for the sake of taking a side, all comments made here are basically the summation of all fanboy arguments ever are: opinion. "my tech is better than yours because i say so"

if youre going to pick something, who cares why you do. be it looks or functionality or both. as long as each person is happy with their purchase, what does it matter.

the only person that loses at the end of the day is one of the format camps. they will have spent all this time and money developing their product and then theyve lost. consumers dont actually lose in the long run, theyll eventually buy whatever format wins. theyll have to. us early adopters sort of get screwed but those are the risks taken in being an early adopter.

and let the flames light.


(btw i wasnt kidding about ps3 looking better than xbox360 - ms seriously has some case design issues.)

[Mic2000 @ Oct 30th 2007 4:19PM]

Gues what i got with my happy meal today...

[Bendy @ Oct 30th 2007 8:53AM]

You are kidding right?? ps3 looks like a dodgy vhs player that escaped from the 80's xbox360 looks amazing in comparison, but i'm a wiifanboy so what do i know

[HyperHacker @ Nov 1st 2007 1:30PM]

"blue lasers win simply because they look pretty f'n sweet."
Ahahaha.

"the ps3 is just so damn sexy in its glossy black exterior. the xbox looks like a cheap mcdonalds happy meal toy."
AHAHAHAHAHHA oh god that's a good one

[ethana2 @ Dec 7th 2007 6:54PM]

The ps3 lets you run your own code.
Psubuntu FTW.

...and I will /never/ buy a 360 or a Wii because they do not. I thus consider them worthless.
That said, I'm not all that much of a gamer.

[p.flynn2 @ Oct 30th 2007 4:02AM]

(yes im aware both hddvd and bluray use blue lasers flame me for something else please)

[Dan Parmelee @ Oct 30th 2007 4:09AM]

I'm still at a loss why all these companies develop DRM systems and spend big dollars to implement it...when people always manage to crack it after a short while.

[Rik @ Oct 30th 2007 5:15AM]

Well it fitś the idea of an incumbent company holding onto it's interests pretty well... anyways I do think BD/HDDVD will be the last laser disc formats, and I don't think they will even achieve mass diffusion anymore... that was yesterday.

[skhawaja @ Oct 30th 2007 4:26AM]

pets slysoft

[Gabe @ Oct 30th 2007 4:44AM]

Sweet!

[Asterra @ Oct 30th 2007 6:50AM]

Don't fret. The BD folks have BD++ in the pipeline. It's part of Profile 3.0.

Guaranteed to involve no more than 75% hardware replacement, and no longer than four weeks of firmware delays.

[Andrew Camacho @ Oct 30th 2007 8:58AM]

Damnit, there goes my excuse for buying DVD's and not yet having a blu-ray player.

[Toshibablows. @ Oct 30th 2007 10:51AM]

Lets all buy HD-DVD..... You can hack it easier and studios will loose more money. Plus the 30gig limitation will really be the best way to go for a lesser format...

[Carbonize @ Oct 30th 2007 5:49PM]

30GB limitation? Wow talk about a misinformed BluRay fanboy.

[ethana2 @ Dec 7th 2007 6:58PM]

1 TB 7200RPM SATA drive

Take it out, pass it around,
999 GB of video on the wall...

...but that's not what they like to hear. Let me know when we have 1 TB of CC-licensed video on this planet. I think we're only like half there, and a lot of it's kinda pathetic as far as polished production goes...

[tekdroid @ Oct 30th 2007 2:17PM]

despite this, the patent-holders are likely to make a packet on DRM with their licensing royalties

...which you can consider to be the real money-earner for the patent-holders now and into the future - conveniently hidden in the cost of your new DRMd drive, vidcard output, cable, etc.

Isn't DRM all about licensing royalties anyway? I think so.

[kevon27 @ Oct 30th 2007 4:20PM]

Where is the advantage of having more storage space with Bluray? Are they using it to give us better picture quality over HD-DVD? Or will we get more useless crap like commentaries from producers, behind the seen stuff? You know, the useless garbage they try of add to current DVD's instead of using that space to have a higher bitrate.

[gleep @ Nov 9th 2007 6:31PM]

Where is the advantage of having more storage space with Bluray?

The advantage is less disks (taking up less shelf space) for releases of TV Series, the Complete films of ..., series movies, etc.

[Ed @ Oct 31st 2007 3:43AM]

BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHA!!!!!! *cough* *Cough* *hack* BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHA!!!

I love those idiots in Sony that thought this would be "crackproof". Even though they can update anytime they want and basically "uncrack" it, that just pisses of consumers A LOT. Not to mention the costs of sending out the upgrades constantly. My father hits the fucking roof everytime he buys a new BluSuck title and it does not work in the player. Then he has to rant at the manufacturer and they send out a DVD to upgrade the firmware (which I have to install). What a Joke.

Have these fools ever looked at pirate releases and bittorrent? There are like 45 cracks for same program going back 2 years.

That DRM will stay uncracked for about a week till the next version of the crack is available.

This is why I don't buy anything Sony. I know that I am subsidizing immense stupidity with every dollar I give them.

[daveyd @ Oct 31st 2007 4:22PM]

Carbonize @ Oct 30th 2007 5:49PM
30GB limitation? Wow talk about a misinformed BluRay fanboy.


lmfao...51gb disks you speack of? the ones that wont work with existing hddvd players? that 51gb? with the same bandwidth as now? yes..misinformed indeed...