BD+ has not been compromised, yet
Despite SlySoft announcing that BD+ was compromised, and promising an update to its AnyDVD HD software, -- which enables you to rip a Blu-ray discs -- here we are a few months later and the latest is that SlySoft recommends that you buy HD DVD. But with Warner recently going blu, a question at the Blu-ray press conference was "did BD+ have anything to do with their decision?" And while Warner's answer was "no", afterwards it was brought to our attention by a Fox employee that BD+ has not been compromised. But, if that's true, then where do these HD Fox titles distributed via illegal means come from? The situation is actually hilariously ironic, as in love with BD+ that Fox seems to be, high quality transfers of their movies still make it onto the internet because of the European releases of HD DVD -- not distributed by Fox and thus not Blu-ray exclusive -- are only protected with AACS. So if you think about it, without BD+, users would have to buy Fox titles to get them on their computer for other uses, but as it stands, it makes more sense for them skip laying down any cash and download the movies instead, nice job guys.

















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sean @ Jan 9th 2008 4:21PM
With choices now limited to just Blu Ray, we can expect to see a lot more illegal downloads of HD movies. Lets face it, BD+ pisses off a lot of paying customers and scares away people who would pay for Fox titles if they could make back ups of there discs. BDs are strong, but not invincible.
Steve @ Jan 9th 2008 4:23PM
Gee, what a novel idea. If you want a movie, pay for it. Netflix isn't a personal "back-up" service.
Xyzzy @ Jan 9th 2008 4:24PM
"it makes more sense for them skip laying down any cash and download the movies instead, nice job guys."
Umm, wouldn't it make sense to buy the HD DVD version and rip it if you really wanted LEGAL media on your media server? That's the first thing I thought of...
wreckedchevy @ Jan 9th 2008 4:36PM
if bd+ hasn't been broken then how come you can find almost every bluray movie made on the net??? and then all you need to watch them in full glory is a ps3
Zodiac @ Jan 9th 2008 5:36PM
Not all of the discs had BD+.
Though some of the BD+ movies have still come out via HDMI capture.
sn1per @ Jan 10th 2008 12:35AM
If you read the writeup, you'd know that it's because in Europe these movies aren't distributed by Fox, and therefore end up on HD-DVD, which only has AACS. There aren't blu-ray rips of BD+ protected movies, yet.
Sam BD Ninja of the HD Wars @ Jan 9th 2008 4:39PM
I have faith it will be broken. If you build it they will trash it.
Greg @ Jan 9th 2008 5:33PM
Funny, you ask the question and answer in the same news Ben.
HD DVD and its flagrant lack of security let people hack from Europe (on films that have a different distributor), and voila.
Think about it two seconds, and you'll see that this state of affair, if nothing else, is encouraging -EVERYONE- (as in Studios and distributors) to switch to Blu Ray fast and generalize the Use of BD+.
Also, you will note that Slysoft as only ever said they cracked -1- title. Insiders have revealed that the encryption for BD+ can be changed for each title, making the work very tough to crack a number of them. Thus a shady company like Slysoft encouraging people to buy HD DVD (the kiss of death from a Studio point of view lmao).
With Blu Ray (or HD DVD) discs probably getting to DVD MSRP price soon (between $24.95 and $19.99), and the Bogos and B2G1 going on, buy some discs, instead of pirating.
DrXym @ Jan 9th 2008 5:41PM
BD+ is going to be tough to break. It's designed to avoid class breaks where one compromise brings the whole system crashing down (think CSS in DVD). If a player was compromised, subsequent new discs could be programmed to check for it.
I think it's more likely that if BD+ is going to be cracked it will be by somebody ripping the firmware from a popular player and emulating it during the BD+ authentication checks.
WASD John @ Jan 9th 2008 7:05PM
This is a joke right? It's been cracked for months now, and will continue to be. An updated version may lock you out for a a week or so, but it'll soon be hacked again even easier than it was the first time. Why would hackers lie about the cracked source of a movie they pirate? Nothing is un-hackable and the closest thing to making something that is not hackable is to include some kind of dial home feature, but since blu-ray beta profile 1.0 did not require all players to have a network connection I really don't see that as possible.
mike @ Jan 9th 2008 11:11PM
your a joke. Do some research. BD+ is not cracked. It has been compromised, but not cracked. This means we can rip it to our hard drive, Watch it in our software players, but its still impossible to manipulate any of the data. This means no transcoding, no encoding, No nothing other then watching it and deleting it. You cannot back it up, you cannot encode it into wmvhd or x.264. So Unless you have a 500TB hard drive where you can permenantly leave 30+ GB movies on for storage, BD+ is still in your way.
I cant wait tell it actually is cracked and possible to archive it.
WASD John @ Jan 10th 2008 12:02AM
Mike, I'm afraid you need to do your research as I see that one of the newest Blu-ray releases that also uses profile 1.1 Resident Evil: Extinction is ripped, re-encoded and available for download in WMV-HD format(and numerous others formats). Source says it came from the Blu-ray disc. As far as a protection technology being compromised as opposed to cracked their is technically a difference which boils down to how much work is needed to break new versions and what not. But either way the warez scene doesn't lie they just do it! Nothing is totally secure especially if there is a way to retrieve it to begin with. And what good is it to brag that BD+ hasn't been cracked when the latest movie titles are still easily ripped and repackaged for download?
sam54 @ Jan 9th 2008 7:11PM
Look for prices of blu-ray software to rise $$$ if HD-DVD goes down quickly. There aren't enough blu-ray manufacturing lines yet, and they aren't convertible from DVD like HD-DVD is. The only thing that might save Toshiba is if they can get their HD-DVD format to play on a regular DVD player without the stupid combo format. A separate DVD layer. Doable and about the only thing that could save the format at this juncture. Combine that with the lower cost per unit as opposed to blu-ray, and watch SONY run out of MONY!
EQC @ Jan 9th 2008 8:29PM
Doesn't the "stupid combo format" use a separate DVD layer? Isn't that how it works?
wreckedchevy @ Jan 9th 2008 7:27PM
another thought, if it wasn't compromised then why did/are they selling the technology to macrovision in hopes they could fix it?
http://www.betanews.com/article/Macrovision_to_acquire_Blurays_BD_for_45_million/1195514742