DVD Encription Hacked

kayos

Lookie what I found on ZD net ........
Film industry under threat as DVD hack hits public domain
It was only a matter of time. DVD film encryption has finally been broken, opening up the standard to a new fleet of software pirates.

A utility called DeCSS, that is purported to be able to read any DVD disk and save those files unencrypted to a local hard drive, is all over the Web like a rash.

Two "programmers" calling themselves Canman and S0upaFr0g credit themselves as original authors of the hack. Using the easily downloadable utility, data can be stripped off any given DVD disk and stored on a hard drive in .vob format, the hackers claim. All the kit a user requires is a PC with as fast a processor as possible, a fully compliant DVD drive, and sufficient local disk space -- usually 4.7GB per layer or side of a standard film release. Just like any audio CD ripped to MP3, the resulting file can then be replayed with numerous downloadable multimedia players.

The readme.txt file that forms part of DeCSS 1.2b downloadable .zip file -- the version of the hack ZDNet News UK found to be most prevalent on the Web today -- provides a number of guidelines for use as well as additional .dll files for Win98, Win2000 and NT support.

.... Hmm sound interesting

Kayos

SantaHoe

4 gigs?
Wouldn't it just be cheaper to buy the fukin' thing?!

kayos

Ya but there is a new DVD-RW Drive which disks well be able to be read in a normal CDRom drive coming out soon so all you have to do is go to your local video shop rent a DVD and copy it

KaYoS

shank

Funny someone was just askin me about that the other day, of course i said na not possible. Pretty cool though, i suppose this means we'll be seeing dvd's soon from our local video pirates.

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Cloud

Check out HackWatch for more on this.

http://www.iol.ie/~kooltek/

J.
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[This message has been edited by Cloud (edited 04-11-99).]

Helv

Fair enough. DVD-RWs are out, but cost upwards of $10000! DVD-RAM drives are about $600ish but the price of DVD-RAM media is crazeee. £22.50 or something for a disc?? Something wrong there.