AACS confirms the HD-DVD disc has been hacked

The licensing agency for the use of high-end content access systems (AACS) yesterday confirmed that hackers stole "title locks" and used them to crack HD-DVD discs through the error of DVD viewing software.

Michael Ayers - AACS spokesperson - said "title lock" and some cracked HD-DVD movies were pushed to peer-to-peer (P2P) network sites that allowed all subjects to Free download and share for free.

However, piracy of HD-DVD discs is unlikely to become a reality and is widespread on the HD-DVD movie file size, and HD-DVD disc burnable costs are relatively high. .

" We want to ensure that we will fully overcome this problem. Although its influence is relatively limited, it is not that it has no impact ."

The failure of AACS could be a disaster for the global DVD industry with a turnover of about $ 24 billion, especially as the industry tends to recover and grow stronger with appearance of the next generation DVD.

The spokesman Ayer also said that with this kind of unlocking, not only has the HD-DVD disc cracked, but Blu-ray is definitely not able to escape the "crash".

Last month a hacker nicknamed Muslix64 published a method on the Internet that he "knocked out" the encryption system to protect the content on the next generation DVD with the DVD player software itself.

AACS is an alliance of technology companies and film producers behind the back for the content protection coding system on the next generation DVD. Founding members of this organization include IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, Walt Disney, and Warner Bros Studios.

Hoang Dung