James Delahunty
17 Apr 2007 18:27
As has widely been reported, HD DVD and Blu-ray's Advanced Access Content System (AACS) has been the target of several successful attacks that have led to Blu-Ray and HD DVD movie titles being decrypted, ripped and shared on the Internet. Even though AACS LA moved to tackle the attacks, hackers have stayed ahead. This is bad news for both formats (from movie studio's perspective at least), but Blu-ray has had BD+ up its sleeve.
BD-Plus is described as a more advanced copy protection technology, yet its still unseen and unproven. The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has decided to bring forth its planned release to re-enforce protection of content on Blu-ray discs. It differs from AACS in many ways, but mainly because each disc can install a small piece of encryption software on a player, so that each disc has its own key.
Once BD+ is available it will add between seven to 28 days per title to production time, with 20th Century Fox being expected to release the first BD+ title. The studio slowed the production of new discs ever since the successful AACS attacks at the end of 2006.
Source:
PC Pro