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Russian Company Claims to have Cracked 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray DRM

posted by martyb on Monday October 09 2017, @12:06AM   
from the I-prefer-Ritz®-crackers dept.

Celestial writes:

A Russian software company by the name of Arusoft may have cracked 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray DRM. All it requires is a PC with a Blu-Ray drive and a $235 piece of software.

At the beginning of this week a new mysterious company with a new mysterious software popped up, Arusoft with DeUHD. The company claimed that its software would be able to copy Ultra HD Blu-ray discs. In a statement to us, the company even stated that it considered AACS 2.0 to be cracked.

With a license of €200 ($235) there weren't many people who wanted to test and potentially lose their money. Therefore, the company handed out 5 licenses to randomly selected users and the first results are in.

To sum up the results: It works, but they don't appear to have cracked AACS 2.0 itself. Instead, the DeUHD developers appear to have found working keys for specific films.

Previously: Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online [Updated]
More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online

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• Re:What goes around..... (Score: 5, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Monday October 09 2017, @06:02AM

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Monday October 09 2017, @06:02AM (#579149) Journal

  Maybe they could make a cryptocurrency for this: The proof of work is brute-forcing a new Blu-Ray key. :-)

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  The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

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