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Hooray! Blu-ray BD+ hacked!

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ZDNet Blogs; By Robin Harris
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The good folks at SlySoft announced last week that they’d broken the BD+ copy protection scheme:

Serious data protection schemes seek to keep at least 1 and preferably 2 of these out of the hands of possible code breakers. German codes during WWII relied on a machine to encode and decode the data. It wasn’t until the British got their hands on one of them - thanks to the Polish underground - that they were able to start unraveling the codes.

Deliver all 3 and it is hard to see how a workable, mass-production system can possibly avoid penetration. But as long as Hollywood wants to control access, inventors will come forward claiming they’ve “solved” the problem.

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