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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Entertainment

iTunes HD Movies Won’t Play on Older Non-HDCP Monitors

4:20AM Matt Buchanan | If you dropped $US20 on an HD movie from iTunes since they came out yesterday, but have a newer Mac and an older external display, you might not be able to watch it. More »
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Entertainment

New BD+ Blu-ray Copy Protection Cracked Months Ahead of Schedule

9:20AM Matt Buchanan | The robust update Blu-ray’s BD+ copy protection that was gonna take three months to crack was just busted by Slysoft, months ahead of schedule. Wanna guess what’s gonna happen to the next BD+ update? [Inquirer] More »
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
Regulars

Giz Explains: Everything You Wanted to Know About DRM

3:00AM Matt Buchanan | Condensed explanation: Digital rights management is a corporate pain in the arse that stops you from doing whatever you want with music and movies in the name of fighting piracy. But there’s more to it.
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Software

AnyDVD HD Is Here, So Start the Blu-ray BD+ DRM Crackin’

7:35AM Benny Goldman | Late last year, disc-copying software maker SlySoft claimed they cracked the BD+ DRM protection in Blu-ray discs. They weren’t kidding. The newest version of AnyDVD HD strips Blu-ray discs of BD+, allowing you to copy even the most locked-up Blu-ray discs (*cough*Fox*cough*) to your heart’s content—assuming the copies are for personal use, of course. On the DVD front, the updated software rips movies that can’t be read by Windows, and can now get around most ARccOS protection. Sounds like a reasonable temptation to all you pirate types, so run along, have at it and report back to us. [SlySoft] Thanks, Mike!! More »
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