Macrovison Says BD+ Not Hacked

In today's conference call regarding the acquisition of BD+ technology from CRI, Macrovision says that BD+ has not been hacked:

"So first of all let me provide a clarifying comment. BD+ has not been hacked. There was a software player that did not have the correct implementation of the specification, and as a result, it did not have the same effectiveness for controlling and understanding the BD+ spec. So it wasn't that BD+ was hacked. BD+ actually wasn't hacked. And since we had heard about that, there were conversations between CRI [the developer of BD+] and the software player manufacturer and developer at which point in time they corrected the specification and the hole was closed. So to the best of our [Macrovision's] knowledge, BD+ has not been hacked yet and its been several months that its already been out there."

Comments

[Guy Smiley]

It has not been out for several months. Boy they are counting on this thing- the marketing spin is starting already! I cant wait to see BD+ go down and all these idiots have egg on their face.

[Demexii]

That is how it usually works. No matter how hard Blu-ray backers try there will be a hole in a player somewhere. The same problem happened with DVDs. You can't expect every player to be secure. The problem with BD+ is that it relies on too many secrets with way too many people. It will sooner or later get beaten and it seems to be sooner. Maybe not "hacked" to some people's standards but the discs will be ripped and leaked to the internet. It is going to happen.