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HD-DVD copy protection cracked - with Serenity

Sunday 14 January 2007, by Webmaster

Decryption Keys For HD-DVD Found, Confirmed

kad77 writes "It appears that, despite skepticism, ’muslix64’ was the real deal. Starting from a riddle posted on pastebin.com, members on the doom9 forum identified the Title key for the HD-DVD release ’Serenity.’ Volume Unique Keys and Title keys for other discs followed within hours, confirming that software HD-DVD players, like any common program, store important run-time data in memory. Here’s a link to decryption utility and sleuthing info in the original doom9 forum thread. The Fair Use crowd has won Round One; now how will the industry respond?"