Philip

Muslix64 apparently has done it again with a brute force key attack by taking advantage of well known flaws in software players. Mostly, that the keys are unprotected in memory and that the decrypted data format (MPEG-2) is well known. By taking advantage of these two bits of information it is possible to rapidly reduce the number of decryption keys and use brute force to try each possible key in turn to figure out the actual decryption key.

Read about it here.

Ironically quite a few of the guys on the forum have rushed out and bought BD-ROM movies now that they know it works with their computers sans HDCP. I don’t see HDCP being useful at all at this point in time, all the professional copiers will do whatever it takes to make discs that are bit identical to the originals just like the original DVD’s (even after DeCSS came out). All HDCP will do is make a lot of people create unencrypted discs to support their less than state of the art hardware.