March 28th, 2008 Posted in SEO
After Sony won the battle of the HD formats with its Blu-Ray disks becoming the format of choice over HD DVD, they may have thought that their new format would go from strength to strength. Unfortunately for the industry giants however it seems as if the ‘impossible’ has been made possible. The format that was heralded as ‘un-hackable’ has been found to be seriously fallible.
The anti piracy technology present in Blu-Ray has been sidestepped by software from Antiguan company, Slysoft. The company claims that its AnyDVD program is able to make ‘back up’ copies of any DVD including Blu-Ray discs. Sony will be seething at the news, especially considering their claims to the film industry that the new format would provide greater security than regular DVDs.
The anti-piracy system is called BD+ and experts at Sony had made the boast that the technology would not be hacked for at least a decade. Developers at Slysoft have evidently made these boasts worthless with the news that they cracked the anti-piracy system last November. The reason they waited to release their AnyDVD software is because they were waiting for the ending of the format war that had been in existence. Once Blu-Ray was clearly the winner, they decided to release the appropriate software.
This may not be the end however, developers of the BD+ system claim that it will be able to react to these piracy attempts and lock out the copied discs subsequently making them unusable. This is unlikely to stop the software developers however; the battle will undoubtedly continue as the arms race between anti-piracy developers and software companies is ongoing. This will certainly not be the last news we hear on the seemingly infinite piracy war.
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