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12-28-2006, 01:25 PM
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/4383/hddvd5ch.gifCan it be? Is Hollywood's new DRM posterchild AACS (Advanced Access Content System, see more here) actually quite breakable? According to a post on our favoritest of forums (Doom9) by DRM hacker du jour muslix64, his new BackupHDDVD tool decrypts and dismantles AACS on a Windows PC. Just feed the small utility a crypto key (it comes bundled with keys for a few popular HD DVD titles, with the promise of more on the way), and it'll dump the video right off the disc onto your hard drive, supposedly playable in any HD DVD compatible player. If true, this would instantly become the DeCSS of high def optical (where you at, Jon?), as AACS is the copy protection scheme used not only by HD DVD, but by Blu-ray as well.
:source: Source: http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/27/aacs-drm-cracked-by-backuphddvd-tool/
:down: Download Link: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=119871
:source: Source: http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/27/aacs-drm-cracked-by-backuphddvd-tool/
:down: Download Link: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=119871