Comments on: DeAACS.com

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:56:48 +0000

“I’m very dissapointed in Sony, Comcast and the Broadcasters. This is total BS. Now my $300 investment is worthless because it tells me I can’t record anything, what’s the purpose of it then?”

Well, first off – buying any digital media device anymore isn’t an investment – it’s a money pit. I refuse to buy any more new crap DVD players, HD-DVD players, or whatever. I don’t bother buying movies anymore and I most certainly do not buy music CD’s.

The result of this is that the Recording Industry doesn’t really get a dime from me anymore. Nor do the makers of DVD/CD players.

No way I’m going to get stung on a TiVO, HD-DVD player, or any of that.. cause I simply won’t buy it, until they put value back in for the consumers.

If people want this DRM crap to end – they will really boycott the industry. Everyone whines about all this, but yet still buys all this crap. I think you’ll be surpised how little you will miss TV once you find other stuff to do

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:48:02 +0000

I just wanted to wish you good luck in your future projects. I think what you are doing is a great service to us all, and I am very glad someone has the guts (and skill) to take a stand against these companies.

By: ivanolo

ivanolo — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:49:52 +0000

What about releasing DeARccOS for Linux?

By: merlin

merlin — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:56:41 +0000

Good luck! I belive you’ll remain on the right side.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:13:38 +0000

John W – WMVHD has been cracked long ago. One can enjoy playing their WMVhd as a normal wmv file without any restrictions, in the original non-reencoded format.

By: Oli

Oli — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:43:55 +0000

Good luck – but i think its quite tricky in the usa to such things, nowadays.

greetings Oliver

By: Borgon

Borgon — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:34:22 +0000

Best luck in your engineering efforts, and spread your expertise!!! The more people able to contribute effectly in the fight for fair use, the better.

By: John Wroughton

John Wroughton — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:27:28 +0000

I moved from the U.S. to Norway way back in ‘81. Totally sold on HD after managing to get my WMVHD “Coral Reef Adventure” (REG 1) to play on my PC in a region 2 country (Norway), I have subsequently had trouble getting the WMVHD “Step Into Liquid” to play in Norway as they only allow it to play in the U.S. and Canada and supply a license one week at a time. I actually (after using many hours) managed to fake the location of pc using a proxy server through Canada. But when the week expired I was back to where I had started. I know that WMVHD might be on the fringes of this discussion. But I do hope someone puts a little effort in helping people living in the various regions to play HD dvds that might not correspond to the region in which they are living.

By: Mart

Mart — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:01:15 +0000

Isnt everyone also forgetting HDCP aswell? its jsut as big a piece of bull crap as AACS is… I live in the uk so a lot of peeps over here dont have fancy brand spanking new HDTV’s with HDCP built in or even a crappy HDMI port its all a loads of liscensing shit, we dont even have supposed Full HD (1080p) televisions over here either i personnaly cant wait for 50in SED or OLED Tech to be released.
I also find it funny the way the call it High Defenition when its really jsut a Higher resolution since as i know of at the moment the highest resolution is something like 5K X 5K pixels on a 35MP camera (i find it funny how they count the individual colour pixels as actual pixels instead of a block of 3 as one pixel for cameras so really 35MP is really just a third of what it says)
i personaly cant wait for people to crack AACS so good for you, your a great help to everyone. I also cant wait for someone to crack a copy of windows vista with the shit interface and Protected video path crap stripped out to re-allow native support for OpenGL again… oh yeah here we go again big companies knocking out smaller companies and open source software to use their own crap which barely runs Namely Nazisoft in this case with its Direct3D/X which looks good on the surface but its buggy as F**K like all microsoft software.
i would like to boot the Windows adiction but for what i want to do there just not enought support for Mac/osx86 or Linux

Anyway good luck mate cant wait to be able to play Blu-ray HD content on my Windows XP!!! machine without needing Vista for a long time untill someone rips the crap out of it and unlocks all the security crap

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:27:29 +0000

The above post by Not So Hollywood is wrong. You can master (to disk) and sell HD content that has no macrovision, no aacs, and no region coding. With the first two gone, hdcp is not enabled so you can play it on vista or whatever and any supported rez. The DRM in vista and any of the set top players locks out media that is using “licensed” tech to limit use. If the media doesn’t employ any of the licensed tech, then the DRM is not activated.

Just as an example, you can buy a copy of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and play it using an HDCP capable upscaling player and send the video to a non HDCP video device (lcd projectors work great). Try it again with any retail disney disk or with starwars (won’t work). Similarly, you can take a retail disk, strip macrovision and unencrypt it, then burn back to disk and try that. Should work the same.

Hollywood always has the option to not pay macrovison and css or aacs licensing royalties and send the media out unencumbered (like CTHD did). Cheers to the day that happens.