Blu-ray copy protection supposedly cracked
by Andrew Yoon 
{ Mar 21st 2008 at 3:45PM }
A cocky press release from West Indies-based Sly Soft proclaims their AnyDVD HD software can break through Blu-ray's copy protection, dubbed BD+. With their software, those that have Blu-ray players on their computers (and large hard drives) may be able to make copies of commercially released Blu-ray movies.However, Sly Soft admits that future movies may not work with the software. "We must also admit that the Blu-ray titles released up to now have not fully exploited the possibilities of BD+. Future releases will undoubtedly have a modified and more polished BD+ protection." But will that stop their efforts? Unlikely. "The worst-case scenario then is our boss locks us up with only bread and water in the company dungeon for three months until we are successful again."
[Thanks, Alan!]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ayrkain @ Mar 30th 2008 4:29PM
AnyDVD always cracks stuff quickly, but they charge 120$ for the HD option + AnyDVD proper. Not only that, but their prices are based on the Euro, so they're getting more expensive all the time. Right now they have a discount so it's only 100$.
Tranando @ Mar 21st 2008 4:32PM
Piracy is for lame Americans.
JerJerBinks @ Mar 21st 2008 4:56PM
Wow, your trolling abiility and insight is almost as bad as Fernando's.
Gamerschoice @ Mar 21st 2008 7:36PM
Yeah, because China NEVER pirates things, neither does Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, and other countries. No, it's just Americans. Just Americans. Idiot.
Meximan @ Mar 21st 2008 4:50PM
Arrrggh! Could that include BD games? Hmmm... .>
Jk. I really hate piracy. That's the main reason why PSP software sales aren't as high as they should be. :(
John Benoit @ Mar 21st 2008 10:49PM
Err, is it just me, or would it not be very difficult to pirate something on a proprietary disk format? I agree that the PSP is underrated as a gaming system overall, but I don't think that game piracy is at the top of the list of reasons why.
nerrrrrrd @ Mar 21st 2008 5:13PM
If you make it, they will crack it.
Lee Richards @ Mar 21st 2008 5:13PM
Pretty much all of the Fox BD+ titles are now available from dodgy sources, however they are all sub par video wise as I doubt anyone in their right mind would download a fully loaded 12/15GB movie. The versions I've seen are 720p but still weigh in at 6.5Gb. That's still a pretty huge file, and one I assume that's far too large for many people to bother with.
VOS @ Mar 21st 2008 5:35PM
Isn't this old news? Haven't they had AnyDVD HD with blu ray functionality for some time now or am I missing something?
Popfrogs @ Mar 21st 2008 8:10PM
It's old news to me, I've had this version of AnyDVD for months.
Andy @ Mar 21st 2008 6:17PM
I have lots of my DVD's ripped onto my computer so I can put them on my ipod and ps3. But Blu-Ray movies are too large. They'll take forever to rip and take over at least 15GB to store.
Popfrogs @ Mar 21st 2008 8:11PM
That's what MKV and other wrappers are for. Plus, not all movies occupy the entire 25GB. Not that I'm advocating piracy, but for some it's more convenient to have all their media on a home server that shares it to many devices.
kuzeth @ Mar 25th 2008 3:21AM
just buy urself a 1TB portable hdd (in my opinion) rip them all from your computer and put them on there, for $8 bucks (aud) to rent them i dont mind considering theyre 30 bucks to buy retail
Vcize @ Mar 21st 2008 6:21PM
What's the deal here? I never got these "BD+ won't be cracked for xxxxx amount of time" statements. Hasn't it been cracked the whole friggin' time? Call me crazy, but you can to any *ahem* "file" site (since the other word will get the post blocked) and search for almost any Blu-ray movie and find it no problem, including movies just released within the last month like No Country for Old Men and I am Legend.
I am admittedly not very knowledgeable about copy protection, but something seems f*cked up when execs are saying "BD+ will never be cracked har har" while at the same time thousands of people are watching blu-ray rips that they downloaded off the net illegally with BD+ not even slowing them down.
Michael @ Mar 21st 2008 6:44PM
previous bluray movies used AACS as the disc encryption, which was also the the system used on HD-DVD and we all know how that turned out (09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 lolol), BD+ was introduced in mid-2007.
Vcize @ Mar 21st 2008 7:20PM
As I mentioned, this is with movies as little as a week old. No Country for Old Men went up a month ago...
Vcize @ Mar 21st 2008 6:27PM
I'm assuming you compress your DVDs and that you're not putting 8-9gb files onto your phone and mp3 player. Obviously if you were putting them on your phone and mp3 player you'd compress the blu-ray files down just as far, so wouldn't they come out the same file size in the end?
VIETZOMB @ Apr 3rd 2008 5:30PM
Lame...i hate thieves.
orthonovum @ Mar 22nd 2008 11:01AM
so do I.. but don't be an idiot, ripping your movies to your hard drive is not illegal, in fact its the only way you can get your media center PC (MythTV, MCE, Freevo, etc) to see and stream your movies from a location on your network. Or what about your iPOD? your PSP? your cell phone? unless you know of a magic way of inserting a blueray disk into those, then you have to rip them to a hard disk to legally use the legal function of those devices to watch the legally owned movie
just don't fuggin upload your files to the internet