Do you? Stay tuned for source code in January. In an accompanying video demonstration posted on the YouTube Web site, the programmer showed encryption keys for six movies and concluded by stating “A.A.C.S. “I was not aware of anyone having done that, so I did,” he wrote.
The note directed readers to a site where demonstration software he had written could be downloaded. 18 that he had successfully copied movies distributed in the HD-DVD format. The HD-DVD camp may have suffered a setback when the programmer, who identified himself as Musli圆4, announced in the Internet discussion forum Doom9 on Dec. The standards are brand new, but it appears that the two groups’ copy protection schemes are already about to be tested. The Blu-ray system also adds a software-based component that makes it possible to modify the copy protection scheme on new discs if the old one is broken by hackers. Both groups use an encryption scheme known as Advanced Access Copy System. The two groups have taken different technical approaches in their efforts to prohibit consumers from making copies of movies and other digital material stored on discs.
Representatives of Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers are on the board of the Blu-ray group. Paramount and Warner Brothers also support HD-DVD, but not exclusively. Among studios, Universal is exclusively backing HD-DVD. The HD-DVD coalition includes companies like Microsoft, Intel, Toshiba and NEC the Blu-ray camp has Sony, Philips and Samsung. The standards, HD-DVD and Blu-ray, are being backed by rival coalitions of Hollywood studios and consumer electronics and computer companies that are eagerly marketing a new generation of digital media players and video game machines tailored for widescreen TVs. 31 - An anonymous computer programmer may have skewed the competition over standards for high-definition DVD discs by possibly defeating a scheme that both sides use to protect digital content.
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