Slysoft hacks BD+ and asks you to buy HD-DVD

November 9, 2007

More news from Slysoft as the company has released a beta version of AnyDVD HD, their software that allows you to make backup of HD-DVD and Blu-ray (the High Definition (HD) formats) discs. The company already won a few battles in their war against the protection of these formats. Now it seems to have won the last one and defeated the Blu-ray BD+ protection.

The BD+ protection is a smallvirtual machine that is embedded in Blu-ray players and can help protecting the device. For example it checks if someone has e.g been trying to hack it. Then code on Blu-ray discs can be released in the BD+ format which can patch hacked devices.

BD+ has also access to the audio and video stream and can therefore be used to unscramble content thus without BD+ hacked, the content isn't properly viewable, but now Slysoft seems to have managed to hack this last resort.

And in case the Blu-ray people are not annoyed enough with Slysoft, they added some release notes:

Note to Twentieth Century Fox: As you can see, BD+ didn't offer you any advanced security, it just annoyed some of your customers with older players. So could you please cut this crap and start publishing your titles on HD-DVD? There are thousands of people willing to give you money.

Note to people considering to invest in HD media: Please buy HD DVD instead of Blu-ray. HD DVD is much more consumer friendly (e.g., no region coding, AACS not mandatory). Don't give your money to people, who throw your fair-use rights out of the window.

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