***UPDATE***
THE HACKER who broke the DRM behind HD-DVD and Blu-Ray has told slyck.com that the technology was easier to break than the CSS system it replaced.
Muslix64 said that the work of DVD Jon in hacking the CSS format was much harder because they had to break encryption keys where as he didn't need to do that.
When HD-DVD and Blu-Ray came out, the movie industry said that they had constructed enough elaborate DRM architecture to prevent anyone copying content.
Muslix64's idea was to bypass the security by finding the volume keys to unlock the AACS protection. muslix64, who told slyck hacks that he does not see himself as a hacker, said he was an upset customer. He said his efforts were "fair use enforcement"!
He was so furious that he couldn’t play his movie on my non-HDCP HD monitor because some executive in Hollywood decided he couldn't that he decided to crack the technology.
After the HD-DVD crack, he thought it was only fair to crack Blu-ray too. One of the things he was amazed about was that Hollywood spent all this money on DRM protection and then forgot to protect the volume key in the memory.
muslix64 said that his hack totally busted AACS and the only way to stop it is to put different keys on every disk, which would cost too much.
Many people in the industry are trying to cover up this breach, by saying he has only poked a tiny hole in AACS, but muslix64 says it is more serious than that.
He said that all PC based DVD players are currently vulnerable to his hack. muslix64 adds that Microsoft Vista's implementation of HDCP was not much of an obstacle either because any limitations are enforced in the player. This can be overcome by using an open-source player, like VideoLan
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