{"id":534,"date":"2006-12-28T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/28\/how-to-crack-hd-dvd\/"},"modified":"2007-03-18T11:47:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T10:47:53","slug":"how-to-crack-hd-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/28\/how-to-crack-hd-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"How to crack HD DVD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image145\" alt=\"High Definition Multimedia Interface - HDMI (for HDCP)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/hdmi_logo.gif\" align=\"right\" \/>I was preparing a small post to talk about what I was envisonning as the future of anti-piracy measures included in HD DVD and BluRay DVD. According to me, there were two possible angles of attack:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Break the AAS coding on the disc itself.<\/li>\n<li>Use the weaknesses of the HDCP protocol that is a requirement in all HDMI conexions to protect the trasmission of high-quality digital flows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I admit that I was ready to comment more on the second issue to remind the theoretical flaws (already mentioned here in: &#8220;<a href=\"\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/16\/hdcp-hdmi-broken-or-nearly-borken\/\">HDCP\/HDMI broken or nearly broken<\/a>&#8220;) and the technical blunder it was becoming for graphics cards, monitors, Windows Vista and others.<\/p>\n<p>But the news are faster than me: A programmer hidden behind the <em>muslix64<\/em> psuedo just posted on a Doom9 forum a small Java application, BackupHDDVD, claiming to crack the AAS protection of a HD DVD. It is preparing a second version on 2nd of January to improve on it (for the time being only video is fully cracked). &#8216;DVD Jon&#8217; Johanssen promissed earlier to work on cracking AAS (he had broken the Content Scrambling System (CSS) protection system of DVD a few years ago). Apparently, he was too slow.<\/p>\n<p>It is now easy to forecast that High Definition DVD will be cracked, opened, decoded, pirated and thus distributed through various pirate channels in the very first days of 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The video of the crack in action:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_oZGYb92isE\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_oZGYb92isE\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_oZGYb92isE\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_oZGYb92isE<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was preparing a small post to talk about what I was envisonning as the future of anti-piracy measures included in HD DVD and BluRay DVD. According to me, there were two possible angles of attack: Break the AAS coding on the disc itself. Use the weaknesses of the HDCP protocol that is a requirement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,18,12,25,26,30,39,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinema","category-culture","category-drm","category-entertainment","category-film","category-music","category-p2p","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}