{"id":264299,"date":"2018-06-13T11:49:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T09:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=264299"},"modified":"2018-06-13T11:51:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T09:51:01","slug":"blu-ray-disc-copyright-protection-cracked-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/264299-blu-ray-disc-copyright-protection-cracked-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray disc copyright protection cracked &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arusoft\u00a0announced it has cracked AACS 2.1 copy protection used on ultra-high-definition Blu-ray discs, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/deuhd-beats-new-aacs-2-1-uhd-blu-ray-disc-protection-180612\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TorrentFreak reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours that the copy protection mechanism used on Blu-ray discs had been cracked surfaced in 2017, when a copy of Smurfs 2 was uploaded to\u00a0UltraHDclub.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Blu-ray releases used a copy protection scheme known as\u00a0AACS 2.0, which was believed to be unbreakable.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the release of the Smurfs 2 UHD rip, Russian company Arusoft announced its ripping tools could handle media encrypted with AACS 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood responded with an updated version of the copy protection scheme, AACS 2.1, which appeared on new discs in May. Based on the recent announcement, this has also been cracked.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/250563-every-iphone-can-likely-be-cracked-report.html\">Every iPhone can likely be cracked \u2014 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arusoft said it has cracked AACS 2.1 copy protection used on Blu-ray discs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[51591,51589,3380,31958],"class_list":["post-264299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-aacs-2-1","tag-arusoft","tag-blu-ray","tag-ultra-hd-blu-ray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264311,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264299\/revisions\/264311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}