AACS DRM cracked by BackupHDDVD tool?
Found on Engadget on Thursday, 28 December 2006
Can it be? Is Hollywood's new DRM posterchild AACS actually quite breakable? According to a post on our favoritest of forums (Doom9) by DRM hacker du jour muslix64, his new BackupHDDVD tool decrypts and dismantles AACS on a Windows PC. Just feed the small utility a crypto key (it comes bundled with keys for a few popular HD DVD titles, with the promise of more on the way), and it'll dump the video right off the disc onto your hard drive, supposedly playable in any HD DVD compatible player.
Well, this had to happen sooner or later. From what I've read at Doom9, it doesn't come with keys; instead you have to pull them from the memory. I guess the next release in January will be more user friendly.