{"id":3715,"date":"2006-12-28T16:02:52","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T20:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/12\/28\/hd-dvd-drm-reportedly-broken\/"},"modified":"2006-12-28T16:02:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T20:02:52","slug":"hd-dvd-drm-reportedly-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/12\/28\/hd-dvd-drm-reportedly-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"HD-DVD DRM Reportedly Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/12\/27\/aacs-drm-cracked-by-backuphddvd-tool\/\">Another DRM scheme (inevitably) yields yet another evasion tool.<\/a> Apparently, Engadget has verified that the BackupHDDVD utility unlocks AACS encrypted HD-DVD discs, allowing users to make copies of the data onto their computer. The utility was released via the doom9 messageboard, home to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/08\/25#a1889\">FairUse4WM tool<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear right now whether this break can be easily patched. Felten discusses AACS&#8217; specs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/?p=869\">here<\/a>, with links. If you follow the Engadget story to doom9, you can read about how the utility was created.<br \/>\nBlu-Ray discs also use AACS, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Blu-ray-Disc-Association-Adopts-Comprehensive-Content-Management-System-6131.shtml\">along with<\/a> BD+, which is explained by Felten <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/?p=883\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another DRM scheme (inevitably) yields yet another evasion tool. Apparently, Engadget has verified that the BackupHDDVD utility unlocks AACS encrypted HD-DVD discs, allowing users to make copies of the data onto their computer. The utility was released via the doom9 messageboard, home to the FairUse4WM tool as well. It&#8217;s unclear right now whether this break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}