Blu-Ray cracked by Slysoft, rips pouring from air

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The recent massive increase in amount of Blu-Ray rips has an obvious reason: cracked protection BD+. A Caribbean firm called SlySoft claims to have broken the copy protection technology used on some Blu-ray discs designed to prevent video content from being copied and pirated. SlySoft has long sold a product called AnyDVD which is a utility that disables a DVD’s Content Scramble System (CSS) copy protection technology. Once a DVD’s copy protection is disabled, you can copy its content using one of several third-party programs. Now the company SlySoft is upping the DRM-busting ante with a new version of AnyDVD HD 6.4.0.0 ($47) that promises to crack Blu-ray disc copy protection.

The copy protection cracked by SlySoft is called BD+. According Macrovision, the company that owns the rights to the BD+ technology, the copy protection has been adopted by “more than 20 companies including major CE manufactures, motion picture studios, as well as The Blu-ray Disc Association.” It’s likely that Macrovision and the Blu-ray Disc Association will knock heads and thwart SlySoft’s crack of BD+. In fact SlySoft representatives have publicly stated the it’s not only likely but probable that the BD+ copy protection technology could be tweaked to prevent Blu-ray discs from being cracked. DRM-cracking technology has long been a thorn in the side of Hollywood anti-piracy fighters. Despite the Motion Picture Association of America’s efforts to crack down on DVD-ripping and despite U.S. copyright laws that make it illegal, sales of software that bypass DVD copy protection continue online and at retail stores.

From rlslog.net What do you guys think about this?

 

The only problem with this would be the size of the Blu-Ray rips. It would take FOREVER to download one. But it would be nice to be able to rent a movie then later save it on your hdd.

 

blu-ray recoreders will become cheaper in the future when blu-ray readers become mainstream, just like with the dvd. the dvd readers [optical reader drives] back then were extremely expensive [4x-6x were like 100-200 dollars] and dvd recorders [recorders not rewritable drives were twice [maybe three times] the cost of the readers. eventually dvd readers and players became more available and cheaper and the cost of recorders became cheaper. so eventually the cost of blu-ray recorders and such will become more available as more blu-ray readers and players become affordable. the cd replaced the floppy, the dvd replaced the cd and the blu-ray cd will replace the dvd.

there really is nothing to worry about, even if drm is imposed, there will be people who will make things to break those rules. it may require work but it will still be possible.

it takes forever to encode h264 videos but hopefully intel and amd will find a processor solution [probably octo-cores] to be able to speed up the processing of the video by dividing the work.

 

One thing that i would be concerned about though is the Audio, is it going to be surround sound or not?