Hacker Cracks High-Def DVD Encryption System

Yahoo! News by David Garrett | Dec. 30, 2006 (News Report)

Muslix64's hack is reportedly designed to enable users to copy high-definition films in Toshiba's HD-DVD and Sony's Blu-ray format. Whether or not it works has yet to be confirmed, but Muslix64 supplied his own bit of compelling proof: a brief YouTube movie in which he showed, in careful, step-by-step sequence, exactly how a high-def DVD of Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket could be decrypted, copied to a hard drive, then played. Full Story »

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by Joe Pallas - Oct. 1, 2008

This story cites no sources other than the Youtube movie. It refers to the forum where the original claim was posted, but it doesn't seem that the author read (or understood) the comments in that forum---otherwise he would have pointed out that the posted program doesn't extract the encryption keys, it needs to have them supplied. The author appears to be more interested in the implications of cracing the high-def DVD encryption system than in whether Muslix64 actually wrote a program to do so.