Ten Years? More Like Ten Months: BD+ Cracked

 

If you’ve recently tried to watch a new release Blu-Ray title, you might have come across some compatibility issues – mainly resulting from the latest anti-pirating ploy by Sony known as BD+.  While many of the older Blu-Ray players have trouble supportingthis highly encrypted form of copyright protection, most frustration has come from enthusiasts looking to make backups of these discs.  A Blu-Ray movie can cost anywhere from $20 to $50 US, so it makes sense that people would want to protect the originals and make a copy – fingerprints and scratches can only be ignored by the player for so long.  To combat this, Sony released BD+, and their analysts claimed BD+ would not be cracked for 10 years

Well. 10 months would have been a more realistic prediction.  Slysoft, an Antigua based software company best known for their highly successful program AnyDVD- a program that removes existing copyright protection and other user-unfriendly features of today’s digital discs – has cracked BD+.  AnyDVD HD now has the ability to decrypt BD+, meaning that users who wish to play or copy their BD+ Blu-Ray dics (all of FOX’s recent movies, for example) can do so on their computer for a small fee. 

Sony has yet to respond, but with each new user-unfriendly feature they implement into Blu-Ray, expect companies like Slysoft to work hard for the consumer, like they have today.  Well done Slysoft, well done.