AACS DRM cracked by BackupHDDVD tool?

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <[email protected]>
Date: December 28, 2006 3:38:33 AM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <[email protected]>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] AACS DRM cracked by BackupHDDVD tool?
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[Note:  If true, this is huge news.  Check out the article link for  
the latest news on this item as folk try to validate the software.  DLH]

AACS DRM cracked by BackupHDDVD tool?

Posted Dec 27th 2006 6:25PM by Ryan Block
<http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/27/aacs-drm-cracked-by-backuphddvd- 
tool/>

Can 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. Code and source posted in  
read link, let us know what you find!

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