Breaking News - Blu-Ray cracked

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Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

Ah, but that's a personal versus business issue. Doing something that endangers someone else is illegal.

In a way they are doing the studios a BIG favour. It allows all the bugs to be shaken out of the system.

If muslix64 had kept quiet, and been primary a pirate, he could have leaked the movies all over the place indefinitely and the studios would have no idea what security breach they had. And so couldn't have fixed it.

Nothing lights a fire under people more than a crisis. And it's just movies here we're talking about.

Basically, it comes down to whether you believe in "security through obscurity" or not.
Gary

What's amazing is that the software players vendors have not been more vigilant in preventing exposures from their end. They need to get the muslix64's of the world in house to hack before they release their wares.