Blu-Ray DRM "Resealed", Disks Again Unrippable

[tptacek]

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/13/137257

[tptacek]

This is, again, the whole idea behind Blu-Ray's BD+ DRM scheme, which was designed by some of the same people who successfully locked down the satellite TV systems. Unlike prior DVD DRM schemes, BD+ can be reprogrammed without updating the players.

[sjs382 → tptacek]

"successfully locked down the satellite TV systems"?

[tptacek → sjs382]

Remember the smart card hacks from the late '90s and early '00s? Notice you can't do that anymore?

[sjs382 → tptacek]

You still can with DirecTv, Dish AND Bell Vu. Hell, it's actually gotten a bit easier. You can do it all in software now (windows or linux, anyways), provided you have a DVB-S receiver for a PC. You can find them pretty cheaply on ebay.

[samlittlewood → sjs382]

Perhaps, a reference to http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001125.html

[tptacek → samlittlewood]

CRI didn't engineer Black Sunday, but their work is the reason there hasn't needed to be a second Black Sunday.

[noonespecial]

Blu-Ray DRM "Resealed", Disks Again Unrippable until some time next week.

That's more like it.

[tptacek → noonespecial]

You didn't even read the story. Slysoft is predicting February for a break of the current wave of BD+ disks. We all know you (for arbitrary values of "you") don't {like,believe in,respect} DRM systems, but you've actually the opposite of contributed to the discussion with that comment.

[jrockway]

Ah, OK. So now I will have to pirate the movies instead of buying the discs that won't play on my non-HDCP TV?

Great business model.

[wmf]

Previous discussion with predictions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=368831