Well, it was just a matter of time. The AACS digital rights management (DRM) technology from Blu-ray and HD-DVD has been cracked
The hack was posted Doom9.org by someone calling themselves Arnezami. According to Wired news, the AACS is looking into this.
“The AACS is investigating the claims right regarding of the hack,” AACS spokesperson Jacqueline Price told Wired News. “It is going to take a appropriate action if it can be verified.”
In December 2006, another hacker managed to crack Blu-Ray using the BackupHDDVD. It decrypts and dismantles AACS on a Windows PC.
What will the DVD companies do now? Can they go back and re-engineer the DRM? Can they update it so that the crack tool is rendered useless?
For regular DVDs, cracks have existed for some time. There was a cat and mouse game played, where when hackers broke into the DVD DRM, the movie studios released a modified version that couldn’t be cracked. But of course, hackers broke that one too. Will this game ever end?
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