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    It's always the lo-fi way that makes the best hacks...

    And they said it was gonna be "hard" to hack... feh.

    German CT magazine found a huge whole in the copyright protection of Blu-ray and HD DVD movies.

    Blu-ray and HD DVD are supposed to be highly secure. There is AACS and HDCP, which when enforced make it impossible to copy movie data from a disc.
    The premier German computer magazine found now out that you can make copy each frame of a movie by just pushing print screen on a computer. They tested this with the Blu-ray Sony Vaio VGC-RC 204 and the HD DVD Toshiba Qosmio G30 notebook.
    I'll never under-estimate a nerd and his free-time ever again.

    Seriously... a frame by frame capture using the Print Screen button. wow. it gets no simpler (and time consuming) than that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gerbick
    And they said it was gonna be "hard" to hack... feh.


    I'll never under-estimate a nerd and his free-time ever again.

    Seriously... a frame by frame capture using the Print Screen button. wow. it gets no simpler (and time consuming) than that.
    I always use tracing paper and crayons - this will save me a few hours!
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    That would literally take DAYS to do.....wow.

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    How do you get the audio?

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    So I suppose you get audio by holding a tape deck up to the speaker?
    And for playback you'd hit play on said tape deck while jamming through your screen shots in an xp slide show? hahaha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by yasunobu13
    How do you get the audio?
    lol never mind jaquan beat me to it.

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    Never heard about hypercam?

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    seems just sticking an hd cam corder infront of the monitor would be easier.
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    could you plug an hd camcorder directly into your audio and video output?

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    someone's going to create software simulation for the copyright protection, somewhere along the line each frame is decompressed and thats where you rip it. just like .tivo files, its gotta be read through the decoder after all that snazzy stuff its raw data and you just gotta re-encode
    Nothing to see here, move along.

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    Its funny though, us power users seem to be the only ones who know that the hacks will be there almost immediately.
    They think thieves will actually dick around with screen readers!? HAH!

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    If you can see it, or hear it, then you can record it.

    But they keep wasting money on useless copy protection schemes.
    Last edited by random25; 07-07-2006 at 09:28 PM.

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    Hack

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    I'll never under-estimate a nerd and his free-time ever again.
    It was probably a PC illerate newbie who said, "OK what happens when I push these two keys?" "Oh look honey what it's doing. It's making a copy of the movie -- how do I stop it?" "I want to print my Picture and email it."

    And presto, a genius was born.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jAQUAN
    So I suppose you get audio by holding a tape deck up to the speaker?
    And for playback you'd hit play on said tape deck while jamming through your screen shots in an xp slide show? hahaha.
    its simpler than that, just set your audio hardware to record the anything thats playing in Windows.

    but about the Print Screen "hack", could you imagine snapshooting 29.97 frames per second?

    If a "hacker" does about 180 frames in one day, he'll only get 5 seconds of the movie.

    I'd probably give up after the 6th frame.

    for people with patience, something i obviously dont have.

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    I'm willing to bet that somebody has already written a vbscript that automates this...

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    Could existing hardware actually keep up with 30 Print screens a second?

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    easily.

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