Media protection are having difficult time. HD-DVD protection has already been cracked
as we reported less than a month ago, now it is BD encryption to be defeated.
If HD-DVD was cracked using a software bypass method, to hack BD protection, they used a procedure based on a memory land marking function to locate the key once it is loaded in memory and defeat the encryption. It was successful, because keys were not fully protected in memory when running video-playing software.
Once more it proves that there is no unbreakable protection, it only takes time and depends on how much people are interested to crack it. Keep in mind that HD-DVD encryption was hacked by a user frustrated not to be able to play on his computer a legally purchased HD-DVD media because its computer was not HDCP-ready... As proven by history, protection are always cracked, so maybe Majors should investigate into another way to "protect" their business and media contents. Did they think of having full feature content via internet registration, or no limit policies to make consumers happy and not stress of dumping money for a media they are not sure to be able to play due to protection systems.