Treasure Trove of AACS 2.0 UHD Blu-Ray Keys Leak Online

[steve2470]

https://torrentfreak.com/treasure-trove-of-aacs-2-0-uhd-blu-ray-keys-leak-online-171211/

A massive list of 72 AACS 2.0 keys is circulating on the Internet, allowing people to rip previously well-protected UHD Blu-ray discs. The leak is a massive setback for Hollywood and the licensing company AACS LA, who have done everything in their power to keep UHD discs secure.

Nowadays, movie buffs and videophiles find it hard to imagine a good viewing experience without UHD content, but disc rippers and pirates have remained on the sidelines for a long time.

Protected with strong AACS 2.0 encryption, UHD Blu-ray discs have long been one of the last bastions movie pirates had yet to breach.

This year there have been some major developments on this front, as full copies of UHD discs started to leak online. While it remained unclear how these were ripped, it was a definite milestone.

[Egnever]

1. It is a never ending war

billions are spent trying to fight piracy and while there are often victories they are always temporary. One wonders where the break even point is where more is being spent to fight piracy than it keeps captured.

[hunter]

2. Never understood the thrill some people get shoplifting, or from this absurdly named "piracy."

If somebody doesn't want to sell me their movie at a price I'm willing to pay then I don't have to watch it.

But I guess I am a pirate of sorts because I play DVDs from any region on my Linux desktop using software that unencrypts the rather inept copy protections of the original DVD standard. I could rip my entire DVD collection to a multi-terabyte hard drive system, but I don't see the point. Unlike my CD collection, which I have ripped to my computers, I don't rewatch movies often enough to make it worthwhile. Even my very favorite movie DVDs will sit on the shelf unused for years, and then when I do decide to watch them again there's something satisfying about taking them off the shelf, opening the box, and putting the DVD in the DVD player. (I also have a working video cassette player, but that's just obsessive, even though our modern 1080p flat screen television does some digital magic that makes video cassettes look better than they ever did on old CRT televisions.)

It might be reasonable to digest a UHD movie down to something that can be viewed on a tablet. UHD itself on a tablet seems silly to me, even if a tablet is capable of displaying it. How many people watch movies holding their tablets a few inches in front of their faces? That's what you'd have to do to appreciate the higher resolution. A 480p DVD quality rip looks fine on a tablet. A $50 Android tablet can play DVD quality movies. My $35 Raspberry Pi can play DVD quality movies.

I like to buy DVDs I find in thrift stores. This certainly depresses the market for older title DVDs that are still being sold new at places like Target or Wal-Mart in the $5 and $10 bins.

I've zero interest in downloading newly released movies from "pirate" sites and torrents on the internet.