The protection BD+ is again circmvented
Slysoft announced an update of its AnyDVD software that again makes it possible to circumvent protection implemented on the Blu-ray disks. After having circumvented successfully AACS, the software are now able to break the protection BD+ that was the joker for supporters of Blu-ray. This acts by creating a virtual machine capable of carrying out checks the legitimacy of the media.
One thus finds oneself again with the ball in the middle while waiting for the next update of protection and that of the software.
In order to add a little virtue to its endeavours, which is difficult given the nature of its software, Slysoft announced that its software is also able to deactivate the function BD-Live of the discs. Installed in the BD Profile 2.0 it makes it possible to recover online additional information. According to Slysoft, this function allowed, without any control by the users, the possibility of deactivating and also to download tens of MB and especially to provide to the studios information about the customers.
Of course, it is contestable whether they are able to deactivate it properly, and one also wonders what the studios could recover apart from the number of hours spent watching films. Slysoft also forgot that nobody can oblige the users to connect the network to their reader.