The German editors from the well-known CT magazine found a surprising and enormous whole in the copyright protection of Blu-ray and HD DVD movies, informs I4U.
The editors discovered that anyone can make several copies of each frame within the movie and that the illegal procedure is just a piece of cake, as it is necessary just to enable the print screen on a computer. The CT editors said that they used the renowned Blu-ray Sony Vaio VGC-RC 204 and Toshiba's HD DVD Qosmio G30 notebooks.
Theoretically at least, Blu-ray and HD DVD are supposed to be more secure than the former standards, as there are several 'locks' embedded such AACS and HDCP, which should forbid copying data from the disc… But, like I said, it just theory, because practice tells us nothing lasts forever, not even two months.
"Of course it does not make sense to manually sit there and hit print screen. This process could be automated. CT got Toshiba to acknowledge the copy protection hole and future version of the player software will not have this issue. It is now out there though. All the gory details will be in the print issue of the CT magazine available on Monday," further writes I4U.
Universal Home Entertainment released two months ago its first Blu-ray titles: "Serenity", "Million Dollar Baby", "The Last Samurai", "Phantom of the Opera", "Doom" and "Apollo 13","Cinderella Man", "Jarhead", "Assault on Precinct 13", "The Chronicles of Riddick", "Van Helsing", "U-571" and "The Bourne Supremacy" at a price of $35.
On the other hand, the challenger, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE), launched only a month ago the first high-definition movies to come on Blu-ray discs. The premier titles were: "50 First Dates", "The Fifth Element", "Hitch", "House of Flying Daggers", "The Terminator", "Underworld Evolution", and "XXX". Then came the already acclaimed "Ultraviolet".
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