Comments on: HD-DVD, Blu-Ray Copy Protection Defeated by “Low-Tech High-Tech” Method http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326 Independent Tech News and Product Reviews from former VP and head of CNET.com and Longtime Computer Shopper Columnist, Alice Hill author of the popular "Hard Edge" column. Originally named AliceandBill.com. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:19:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Someone Gets It: DRM Does Not Stop Piracy | Etixet Tag Cloud Archive 10.000 Web Site Feed http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326#comment-452290 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:20:09 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326#comment-452290 [...] I’ve said it before, though perhaps not here … if someone really wants to pirate software, music, movies … well, those people will find a way to do it. Example here, where brute force defeats HD DRM. TG Daily has an interview with Jerry Pierce, senior VP of technology at Universal Pictures, and he says “So, DRM needs to give them some restrictions beyond what both the customer and we believe are the proper usage rules. That’s what we need to achieve. DRMs enable business models, they don’t stop piracy.” [...] […] I’ve said it before, though perhaps not here … if someone really wants to pirate software, music, movies … well, those people will find a way to do it. Example here, where brute force defeats HD DRM. TG Daily has an interview with Jerry Pierce, senior VP of technology at Universal Pictures, and he says “So, DRM needs to give them some restrictions beyond what both the customer and we believe are the proper usage rules. That’s what we need to achieve. DRMs enable business models, they don’t stop piracy.” […]

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]]> by: GiM http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326#comment-54371 Sun, 06 Aug 2006 00:09:40 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326#comment-54371 Everything turn around DRM... For a pirate, buying 5 DVD units for 5 "area codes" is nothing, because it is his "business". I heard of programs reading audio/video direct from cards and circumvent any "coding" solution. And then, 500GB also means nothing for a "business", and then fly to a DivX or XviD, and problem solved. And I allways dream of HDTV resolution. My PC can handle it from 3 years ago, what I really miss is a HDTV tuner (really-really, a HDTV source)... Everything turn around DRM… For a pirate, buying 5 DVD units for 5 “area codes” is nothing, because it is his “business”. I heard of programs reading audio/video direct from cards and circumvent any “coding” solution. And then, 500GB also means nothing for a “business”, and then fly to a DivX or XviD, and problem solved. And I allways dream of HDTV resolution. My PC can handle it from 3 years ago, what I really miss is a HDTV tuner (really-really, a HDTV source)…

]]> by: Paul Higgins http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326#comment-54291 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:47:29 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326#comment-54291 Sounds to me like this is just a 'crack' for the sake of it, to prove it can be done. The amount of drive space and the synching makes it impractical for the average Joe. But rest assured, when the new technology superscedes todays, somebody, somewhere will crack it and sell the hardware/software to allow us to do it with a few clicks. The answer is, make the cost of the hardware and media at a cost that makes copying it uneconomical. I live in the UK and the cost of new films on DVD of £17.99, more or less, makes it worth paying pennies for blank media and renting a Blockbuster video for £3.95 and copying it. Not that I would, but it is just economics! Sounds to me like this is just a ‘crack’ for the sake of it, to prove it can be done. The amount of drive space and the synching makes it impractical for the average Joe. But rest assured, when the new technology superscedes todays, somebody, somewhere will crack it and sell the hardware/software to allow us to do it with a few clicks. The answer is, make the cost of the hardware and media at a cost that makes copying it uneconomical. I live in the UK and the cost of new films on DVD of £17.99, more or less, makes it worth paying pennies for blank media and renting a Blockbuster video for £3.95 and copying it. Not that I would, but it is just economics!

]]> by: Bill M http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326#comment-54281 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:17:39 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326#comment-54281 For Joe Average (like me) this is a waste. Even if I had the disk space, I am not going to spend the time. The video pirate will be all over this, it means they can still sell illegal copies for a buck and turn a profit. More proof that DRM is fool's gold, except for the DRM vendors. For Joe Average (like me) this is a waste. Even if I had the disk space, I am not going to spend the time. The video pirate will be all over this, it means they can still sell illegal copies for a buck and turn a profit. More proof that DRM is fool’s gold, except for the DRM vendors.

]]> by: David Johnston http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326#comment-54213 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:22:02 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326#comment-54213 lkaruga, this is definitely a crack of the DRM because it gets around the technology that is supposed to stop a movie from being copied. Using a script to get all the screenshots is fairly trivial. The only "hard" part is syncing the audio to the video, which really wouldn't be all that difficult for someone who really wanted to make a copy. lkaruga, this is definitely a crack of the DRM because it gets around the technology that is supposed to stop a movie from being copied. Using a script to get all the screenshots is fairly trivial. The only “hard” part is syncing the audio to the video, which really wouldn’t be all that difficult for someone who really wanted to make a copy.

]]> by: Lockergnome's Tech News Watch http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326#comment-54212 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:20:03 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326#comment-54212 <strong>HD-DVD, Blu-ray Copy Protection Defeated By "Low-Tech High-Tech" Method</strong> Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes: What do I mean by Low-Tech High-Tech method? It was cracked not by trying to crack it, but by brute force, according to the German technology magazine c't. Essentially they used the Print Screen feature to capture... HD-DVD, Blu-ray Copy Protection Defeated By “Low-Tech High-Tech” Method

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes: What do I mean by Low-Tech High-Tech method? It was cracked not by trying to crack it, but by brute force, according to the German technology magazine c’t. Essentially they used the Print Screen feature to capture…

]]> by: Ikaruga http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326#comment-54209 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:50:03 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3326#comment-54209 "For a 90-minute movie, this is 162,000 frames, or approximately 324 GB in total storage" "The sound tracks must be captured separately and then re-synched with the video" Uh, so how is this a crack? Doesn't seem to be very practical. “For a 90-minute movie, this is 162,000 frames, or approximately 324 GB in total storage”

“The sound tracks must be captured separately and then re-synched with the video”

Uh, so how is this a crack? Doesn’t seem to be very practical.

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