Showing posts with label Blu-ray. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blu-ray. Show all posts

04 November 2008

Blu-ray's DRM Pixie Dust Defeated

Why do people persist in believing that DRM can ever be effective for long?


A small group of dedicated researchers over on the Doom9 forum have successfully defeated BD+, the Blu-ray copy-protection system. This was the copy-protection mechanism that Richard Doherty, a media analyst with Envisioneering Group, claimed wouldn’t likely be broken for 10 years.

Not that any cares about Blu-ray, of course.

26 October 2007

High-Def, Low Interest

worrying about the high-def format war is a waste of time. And to be quite honest, I don't see these formats being around much longer anyway--movie downloads will quickly supplant media as the chosen form of entertainment once our Internet access speeds increase.

Quite. Part of the problem is that the manufacturers are more interested in "solving" the problem of copying than providing something that users want. No wonder the public doesn't really give a damn.