BD+ Independently broken by programmers at doom9 forums , really?

[jianhuang]

BD+ Independently broken by programmers at doom9 forums

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Looks like the BD+ protection on Blu Ray disks has been cracked by a few independent researchers over at the Doom9 forums. They have an initial release of their program, called BDVM Debugger v.0.1.0, available for download. This is not a finished product ready for the general public, but is a first step in that direction.

One of the main contributors to the project, called Oopho2ei, stated their goals quite clearly:
I would like to stress again that this project wasn't intended to circumvent copy protection and promote piracy. This can already be done using commercial software like AnyDVD-HD. Instead this project was an attempt to enable users of open source operating systems (like linux) to playback their BD+ protected discs without having to use proprietary software.

Congratulations to these guys. Lots of hard work involved here.

Here is a link to the last page of the thread at doom9: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=140571&page=17

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Originally Posted by jianhuang

BD+ Independently broken by programmers at doom9 forums

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Looks like the BD+ protection on Blu Ray disks has been cracked by a few independent researchers over at the Doom9 forums. They have an initial release of their program, called BDVM Debugger v.0.1.0, available for download. This is not a finished product ready for the general public, but is a first step in that direction.

One of the main contributors to the project, called Oopho2ei, stated their goals quite clearly:
I would like to stress again that this project wasn't intended to circumvent copy protection and promote piracy. This can already be done using commercial software like AnyDVD-HD. Instead this project was an attempt to enable users of open source operating systems (like linux) to playback their BD+ protected discs without having to use proprietary software.

Congratulations to these guys. Lots of hard work involved here.

Here is a link to the last page of the thread at doom9: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=140571&page=17

BD+ is renewable security and a firmware update will fix this issue so people do not start making unauthorized copies of movies for friends, relatives, and resale. If the BLU-RAY camp was smart they would use 256 bit AES encryption that has never been broken. The BLU-RAY format should support 256 bit AES just like the government uses for top secret and classified files. Of course this would be a major change in the BLU-RAY format specs but could make the format secure for 10+ years until faster super computers can break AES in a few months instead of years. 256 bit AES has never been hacked and would be ideal for movies.