PS3 Blu-Ray Hacked
December 3rd, 2006 by Kevin Cortez in News
Thanks to the ability to run Linux on your PlayStation 3, Blu-Ray movies can now be ripped to the PS3 hard drive. PVRWire, as well as several other websites, are reporting that PS3 users are illegally copying Blu-Ray movies onto their PS3 hard drive. It’s possible that someone may find out how to burn these movies from their hard drives onto a disc. In only a mere few days, the Linux PS3 has already enabled piracy and there’s no doubt that in the following months, the PS3 will be a favorite among hackers. If they can manage to get one, that is.
Via IGN
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December 3rd, 2006 at 10:14 pm
I thought that Sony was charging us $100 of the extra $400 for Bluray as opposed to HDDVD because of security. It’s been two weeks and it’s hacked already?
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:55 pm
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December 4th, 2006 at 3:46 am
Wow … this totally undermines Blu-ray and the PS3. Let the age of bootlegging blu-ray movies begin. Incredible. No wonder Sony may be throwing in the towel on the console front. They really would have been much better off not using an Open OS like Linux on this console … they should have developed a propietary console OS. See what happens when you try to do too much.
Well let’s just see where this thing is in one year. That will pretty much determine if they shift to software dev only or stay the course. But if bootleg blu-ray movies start showing up before bootleg HD-DVD movies that will really seal Sony’s fate. At least that is how I see it. I’m sure others have a different POV. Though when using sound logic I don’t know how you can come to any other conclusion.
December 4th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
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December 5th, 2006 at 1:57 am
not to hard to get them off of the xbox 360 huh?
http://www.jakeludington.com/hddvd/20061203_how_to_copy_hddvds.html
if you build it some one will hack it
December 8th, 2006 at 11:31 am
What a joke! Any of you ever hear of “Watermarking” or HDCP chip technology? It’s Intel’s copy protection system on both HD-DVD and BluRay that sadly brings to an end any hopes of hackers and pirates to ever enable playback!
Plus you may not know that Sony decided to let you fools think you were getting away with something, so they included Linux with the ability to rip any disks to your hard drive.
Don’t believe me check “Cell Security” on IBM’s site. You will discover the end of piracy with these two technologies combined. That unique to each and every disk “Watermark” brings and end to piracy by itself!
December 8th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
“not to hard to get them off of the xbox 360 huh?
http://www.jakeludington.com/hddvd/20061203_how_to_copy_hddvds.html
if you build it some one will hack it”
In my opinion that is much different than just ripping something to a hard drive without any effort.
“One of the key disadvantages of HD-DVD is no convenient way to make back-up copies of the discs. ” (While it is pretty convenient to rip through Linux)
“Breaking this down, the requirements for copying HD-DVDs using this method are:
* An Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive.
* Tons of fast-write drive space
* HD capture card with component inputs
* Video Capture Software
* Proper cabling
* Video conversion software to output a compressed HD video file
All of that effort … vs. Just straight ripping … well we can see whose format will be pirated the most but you were correct about somehow being able to do it. Still without getting into any arguments I must say I just really like my HD-DVD player and just leave it at that. But thanks for pointing out that article.
December 8th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
There is also this article …
Optical HD Battle May Be Over: HD DVD Wins
http://news.digitaltrends.com/talkback158.html
And here are some excepts.
“Rob Enderle wrapped up his article saying, ” The market wants one solution for High Definition video and we are already starting to see high definition downloads through services like Xbox live. Apple’s iTV is expected to go even further when it launches early next year. It may actually be too late for either of these platforms to move; if folks move aggressively to downloads for high definition content and if High Definition pay per view cable offerings continue to improve, even if I’m correct and HD-DVD has won, it may have actually prevailed too late in the process to survive for long.
Be that as it may, with a 4x to 6x advantage by year end, you’d have to conclude that HD-DVD has reached a point where it can’t lose and Blu-Ray is only now in a position to ensure both platforms lose. That last option still appears most likely if the market doesn’t move aggressively to one HD platform.”
December 13th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Anuban,
You don’t know what you’re talking about. HD-DVD has NOT been hacked on the 360. I have seen the method used to dump the HD-DVD and the result is that if it isn’t a managed copy, the best you’re going to get is a copy in standard television definition, which defeats the purpose of copying in the first place because methods already exist for hacking regular DVD’s for the same result. When a movie can be duplicated in full HD resolution, then you can say it has been hacked. Even the Blu Ray hackers have so far only managed to produce an ISO dump, which isn’t the same as a playable movie in full resolution. As for digital watermarking, that is a joke. Any copy protection that can be devised by a human being can be undone by another human being. Every copy protection scheme that the music, film and game industries has produced has fallen in due course, and the technologies on HD-DVD/Blu Ray discs will be no different.