It appears that the new anti-piracy DRM technology AACS (Advanced Access Content System), created by Microsoft, has been “hacked” already. Apparently a DRM reverse-engineer going by the name of muslix64 has written a new program called BackupHDDVD to decrypt and dismantle AACS on a Windows PC. Entering a crypto into the utility (think windows authentication key) and the program will transfer a copy of the HD-DVD onto your hard drive allowing you to watch it in any HD-DVD compatible player. Now things get a little worse. The Blu-Ray disc also use the AACS DRM encryption, however Blu-Ray has added a few twist with “watermarking” and BD+ copy protection. These added layers of protection might be the reason that the movie industy is all for Blu-Ray over HD-DVD. If this crack proves to be workable on large scale and we start to see the wide spread piracy of High-Def content look for HD-DVD to fall off the map. The movie industy has no problem bailing on a format they feel isn’t capable to keeping their coffers full. Watch the movie below to see things in action. Welcome to CrzyLand.

-Nic

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