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And now the keys for Blu-ray discs are getting released, even though there isn’t any software to extract the video yet! Outstanding.

The keys for use with BackupHDDVD are now starting to be extracted and shared, enabling your to back up your HD-DVD discs. I doff my cap to the community that made this happen so quickly.

It appears that someone has found a way to extract the encryption keys for HD-DVD discs, then rip them. This doesn’t render the whole of AACS broken (it was designed to work around broken software), but until the movie industry makes its move, all HD-DVD discs out there today can be ripped.

An overview of how the AACS encryption system that’ll be baked into Bluray and HD-DVD works. It’s very well-crafted, but ultimately doomed-to-fail — either through cracking, or through speedy product-obsolescence.