HD DVD's AACS Protection Cracked

They told us it was bullet-proof, unbreakable. Yet in a mere eight days, a hacker by the name of Muslix64 has managed to single-handedly break the Advanced Access Content System (AACS), the standard that Disney, Intel, Microsoft, Sony, and others developed to protect HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. The BackupHDDVD software is posted online on a Doom 9 forum thread along with the volume and title keys needed to decrypt Full Metal Jacket, Van Helsing, and a few other popular HD DVD titles. Time to, er, back up those movies.

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Except the AACS protection wasn't cracked. At all :)

The dude snooped some keys from memory of a player, perhaps PowerDVD, which any half-competent programmer/hacker can do, really.

The studios can issue new keys on existing titles if they wanted to, including revoking player keys from offending software if needed (new titles will carry updated revocation lists).

Their was also this other guy who had a way but you needed a 360 HD-DVD player, a Terabyte harddrive, a few cables, and a lot of patience. In the end you had turned a 30GB movie into a 720GB movie without sound!