Slysoft Plays Cat and Mouse with BD+ DRM - And Continues to Win the War
Posted 01/04/09 at 09:34:03 AM by Justin Kerr
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Copy protection and DRM in general is a difficult subject to write about objectively. If you take a step back and look at the desire to protect ones intellectual property, DRM sounds like a good idea. But as a legitimate consumer of many types of media, it can be somewhat frustrating to know that pirates get to enjoy their plunder on any device, while my DVD remains locked to its plastic prison. Ways around this exist, but they are often somewhat involved, and if you’re trying to keep things legitimate, it’s difficult to know exactly when you’ve broken the law. CD and DVD copy protection has been cracked for some time now, and many easy to use utilities exist to do so. For legitimate consumers, this represents a grey area of the law many seem willing to cross.
The rise of HD media gave birth to even more insidious DRM solutions for protecting video. HDCP compliant displays and BD+ are just two of the terms that haunt HD enthusiasts, particularly those with home theatre PC’s. Blu-Ray’s copy protection has been heavily criticized, and both software and hardware players often require constant updates to play the newest releases. Those in search of a better solution have almost universally embraced AnyDVD HD from Slysoft. Using a specialized Windows driver it allows decryption of most forms of media (even HD) on the fly, circumventing copy protection and region restrictions. A few days ago Slysoft issued us a press release proudly proclaiming once again that Blu-Ray’s BD+ has been fully cracked in version 6.5.0.2. Currently Slysoft offers free lifetime updates to customers, but will make the transition to a subscription model on January 11th 2009. A trial version is available from their website, and just might put an end to your media related DRM woes.
Has Blu-Ray’s extensive DRM requirements slowed your adoption of HD?
"has been fully cracked in
Submitted by Morpheous416 on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 10:41am
"has been fully cracked in version 6.5.0.2"
And updated just a few days later in 6.5.0.7.
Get AnyDVD.. there's no reason not to have it.
DVD media life span
Submitted by Bravo_18 on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 10:04pm
Needless to say...DVD or HD Dvd media has a limited life span, in terms of it use as in wear & tear condition. Thats why most people consider to have their favorite movie backed-up on a Hard drive with-out having the DVD disc on the drive. I mean there are tons of scenario on where you can't anymore watch your favorite movie, like the media being badly scratched or your DVD cant read it anymore..etc..
The more they tighten up the DRM issue on this media...DVD HD..the more resilient the people are to try apps like these...
Submitted by trstno1 on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 4:54pm
The main reason I use it, is so I can watch a Blu-ray over an analog connection. Not even talking about fair use to backup, just fair use to watch.
Fuck 'em. My philosphy is
Submitted by I Jedi on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 4:21pm
Fuck 'em. My philosphy is once you legitametely own the media, do what you want, so long as you don't pass it around to others.
Submitted by epic on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 3:58pm
I been using Slysoft for a while now and they are the best in the business.
I think it is silly to buy a dvd/cd and have the content you buy locked. I have never downloaded movies and music illegally, but I do have a 10 terabyte server that streams content to all my TV's in my home through xbox 360's. This would not be possible unless there were companies like Slysolf around to battle stupid corps.
I buy all my dvds, ripp them to my server and store the physical box in a closet in the game room. Instead of looking through 100's of movies in the closet, I can now sit on my couch and browse movies by title or genre through an xbox interface.
/salute Slysoft
EpiC
Submitted by mikemckay on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 1:40pm
i have a home theater pc right now and it would actually have a blu ray drive if not for hdcp and its require ment for me to buy a new video card.
Of course, this wasnt a problem and didnt slow my adoption of HD-DVD.....but that seemed too good to be true anyways
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