BackupHD-DVD program goes public - is this good or bad ?

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Hello guys

I've read the latest articles about the HD-DVD back-up tool lately and I saw that yesteray the first version of BackupHDDVD-GUI v0.0.5 was launched by "Nomadic" another member of Doom9 who used the algorythm developped by "Muslis64", added some new features such as checking Volume Unique Key using CMAC algorithm and a GUI interface and lauched the first program of its kind that is accessible to everyone not only for those who understand Java programming and all that encryption procedure. For running the program Java Runtime Environment is needed. (for those iterested it can be downloaded at: <Removed by blue>

It seems that now more and more guys are working on completely understanding and decrypting HD-DVD and it seems most of the work is already done. From the point of view of the Studios supporting HD-DVD this is probably a very bad news, but if we think about the public things might look a bit different. It is very likely that more and more people will prefer HD-DVD because they could back-up their DVD and most probably share with friends and over the internet.

On the other hand 'work' has already began on the Blu-Ray system
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=120672
but this seems more difficult to realize than HD-DVD. However this is proabably also only a matter of time.

I am wondering what if the encryption crack will have any impact on the format war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.

Waiting for your opinions.