HDCP Master Key Cracked with $267 Custom Board

[admin]

Apparently HDCP has been cracked. Now, Blu-ray content protection has been cracked before. At least, it's been cracked such that you can rip and store the files to hard drive if, you know, you're a glutton for punishment and have enough hard disc space to make this practical. Our thought has been that picking up a Blu-ray Disc jukebox like Sony's BDP-CX7000ES ($750) or the Pioneer DV-F727 ($600) makes a lot more sense, even though it's not as nifty as having a smooth digital interface for all your movies. But "researchers" at the Secure Hardware Group of Ruhr University of Bochum (RUB) in Germany claim to have cracked Intel's HDCP using hardware.


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[BoredSysAdmin]

As states many times - this is very neat and all, but still far cry from being a practical solution and let me touch up on few answers why:
a) This "practical" solution only removes the hdcp protection from hdmi stream and does not facilitate the capture
b)hdmi steam is uncompressed and could be as high as 10.2 Gigabits - you'd ether need a hardware able to do realtime encoding of this very high speed stream or a storage system capable of continuous write speeds of 1.275 GBytes/sec - so far I know only Extreme PCI-e SSD system could come close, but a) it's very expensive b) offers relatively small storage which is an issue because
d) uncompressed HDMI stream at 10.2gb/s would


Product in the article plus this:
Blackmagic Design: Intensity
= WN !

[Adam]

You asked: why don't I rip blu-rays, or do I?

I don't, for two reasons: ethics and logistics.

First, I'm far more prone to stay away from doing stuff like copying media that I haven't purchased than when I was younger. Not because I'm more afraid of ramifications, but rather that I now think it's wrong to do it. This is relevant because I rent more blu-rays than I own, and if I copied, it would be the rentals.

Second is the issue of storing that amount of data. It's just not worth it to me to get a bunch of hard drives and deal with getting it all set up and keeping them running, including back-up drives.

[lsiberian]

IMO, if a Blu-ray is worth owning a copy of it's worth buying. If we don't reward studios for good work then we are destined for even more trash.

[96cobra10101]

IMO, if a Blu-ray is worth owning a copy of it's worth buying. If we don't reward studios for good work then we are destined for even more trash.

And buying a BluRay is still cheaper than going to the theater to watch it.

[BoredSysAdmin]

IMO, if a Blu-ray is worth owning a copy of it's worth buying. If we don't reward studios for good work then we are destined for even more trash.

So for example one owns a VHS tape with Terminator 2, but then there is laserdisk of T2 which I need to buy (full price) and then there is a DVD edition, VCD, Collectors edition,HD-DVD, BluRay, 3D BluRay, iTunes to play on your iDevice... etc...

How many times one need to buy the same exact movie? I guess I really must have to reward studios - god knows they need my hard earned money to buy a new mansions while evade taxes

[darien87]

I would rip BD's if it was simple. I've always thought it was stupid that I couldn't put my PS 3 games on the hard drive. It would cut down on load times and make the game playing experience more enjoyable.

[GlocksRock]

I would rip BD's if it was simple. I've always thought it was stupid that I couldn't put my PS 3 games on the hard drive. It would cut down on load times and make the game playing experience more enjoyable.

It IS simple, very simple, and you can rip just the movie and whatever audio and subtitle streams you want and remove the rest, you can even tell the software to remove the hd audio portion of the true-hd or dts-hd ma stream and rip just the core audio if you want which saves even more disc space.

You can also rip your xbox 360 games to the hard drive, though you still need the disc in the drive to play them, but if there is a digital download of the full game you obviously won't need a disc for that, same goes for the PS3, well the download part, they still don't let you rip the discs, but that makes sense since their games are on blu ray discs which contain much more data causing it to be impractical considering the hard drives sizes that are available in the PS3.

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Have you ever popped in your new BD disc, but only to experience a red screen that says you need to update you BD player? And even after you did, it still wouldn't work?

Some friends came over a few weeks ago and wanted to watch "Water for Elephants ". I had rented it a day before. So I popped it into my $2K Denon Universal player, but it would not play.

So I said "Screw this, I'll just rip it onto my hard drive". Problem solved.

[jinjuku]

You asked: why don't I rip blu-rays, or do I?

I don't, for two reasons: ethics and logistics.

First, I'm far more prone to stay away from doing stuff like copying media that I haven't purchased than when I was younger.

Where did any body say anything about media you don't own?