HD DVD Unlocked Created 17 years ago2007-05-02 14:05:24 UTC by fourthgen

I know there's already been a thread on this matter that has been locked, but I would like to think this will be the serious business thread on discussing HD DVD's being pwned. No retards.

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What the hell is that, you ask? It's a processing key for HD DVD. Basically, the media is encrypted and that is the key for decryption. That's as far as my expertise on that side of the matter goes. All I know is that it works.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=952968#post952968

That link is the original sauce for this all. I say sauce because this code has been the subject of much drama on digg. At first they removed all posts about the code due to a cease and desist letter from the unnamed owners of the intellectual property. However, very recently the founder of digg, Kevin Rose has come out to reverse digg's stance on this due to massive user demands and in the interests of "freedom of speech" or press.

So yeah... what're your opinions on the matter?

So could you explain this to me. Does this mean because I briefly read it that people can rip HD movies off of DVD's onto their computer thanks to that processeing key?

Pretty much, but there are legit uses for this too. It enables Linux users to play HD-DVD's on their computers and basically opens up the whole of HD DVD from DRM, or at least that is what I have understood from everything I have read.

Of course, HD DVD's will be updated and this key will be obselete soon enough. Until then, white hat hackers have gained a major victory against DRM as a whole.

Well that is certainly something. To be honest I had no idea it couldn't be done before I read this. I used to think people ripped them all the time.

Anyway should be interesting to see what the industry will have to say.

Even if they change it, it won't be long before it's cracked again.

Woo, getting rid of DRM is always a good thing.

Indeed, it's like the whole illegal prime thing. I don't really get how the DMCA or the law can declare bits of code and numbers illegal to possess or to use - They're just numbers. That's like outlawing certain letters or sequences of letters (words) or something, it's ridiculous.

Im going to print the code on a t-shirt and shop at a software shop thingy.

Haha, illegal numbers. America is funny :).

Good show again, Doom9 folks. Fight this idiocy.