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Sunday, July 8, 2007
DRM guru claims new BluRay won't be cracked for 10 years
Smokey sez, "Richard Doherty, well-known CE industry analyst, declared to a trade magazine that the BD+ DRM system about to be rolled out on all Blu Ray discs would not be hacked for 'likely 10 years.'"
So, this is dumb for (at least) two reasons:
1. Some teenager will hack this by attacking the least secure implementation of BD+ -- the manufacturer who makes the most mistakes. The BD+ people will argue that BD+ wasn't cracked -- some idiotic company's bad BD+ version was cracked. Yes, true. And that's why BD+ doesn't work: it has to be implemented by companies whose customers don't want BD+.
2. It doesn't matter if BD+ works. There's HD-DVD and all the other compromised DRMs, with the same works released on all of them. If BD+ survives, it's only because DRM crackers can get everything BD+ protects more easily by cracking something else. As the bear joke goes, "I don't have to outrun the bear -- I only have to outrun you." Another analogy: BD+ may be an impregnable steel door, but it protects a safe whose other five walls are made of rice-paper.
Still, it'll be funny to watch BD+ get creamed by a Scandinavian 16-year-old who only started caring about this stuff when the MPAA subverted his country's legal system in a failed attempt to shut down The Pirate Bay (other trackers may be run by the MPAA as honey-pots -- accept no imitations!) Link
posted by Cory Doctorow at 07:25:45 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments
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