Yes and no: every release of AnyDVD will be able to crack discs known up to its release date.
Additionally, AnyDVD will automatically update itself online automatically, as soon as you insert a new disc unknown to your current version. This will take no more than 1 or 2 seconds and the new disc will play.
So effectively you will notice no difference.
By the way this means the real decryption programm is on a Slysoft server and generates the key for the "unknown" disc with information send by the AnyDVD on my PC?!
You should not have to have internet for the decryption process to work.
You should not have to have internet for the decryption process to work.
Sigh:
"The release of the latest AnyDVD follows the HD DVD and Blu-ray cracks that appeared lately in various forums."
*We* were the first who fully cracked MKBv1&2, while others were sniffing keys from the WinDVD player software. *We* were the first to crack MKBv3. *We* were the first to crack BD region codes. And again, *we* are the first who cracked MKBv4. And *we* are the only ones with AACS real-time decryption and "magic file replacement(tm)".
Despite common belief, we don't imitate. We innovate.
Sigh:
"The release of the latest AnyDVD follows the HD DVD and Blu-ray cracks that appeared lately in various forums."
*We* were the first who fully cracked MKBv1&2, while others were sniffing keys from the WinDVD player software. *We* were the first to crack MKBv3. *We* were the first to crack BD region codes. And again, *we* are the first who cracked MKBv4. And *we* are the only ones with AACS real-time decryption and "magic file replacement(tm)".
Despite common belief, we don't imitate. We innovate.
Sorry if I made you mad didn't mean to.
It wasn't you. The article upsets him because they continue to get facts wrong and make assumptions that are incorrect. If you spent a great deal of time and effort to create something, say a great work of art, and when it was released someone said to you "Wow, that's amazing! Too bad you ripped it off" you'd probably take it very similarly to James and Co. I really don't blame them.
Well, since the beginning it's been claimed that Slysoft took the work from Doom9 and used it as their own, but, that is patently false. Peer was hard at work on AACS long before the discussions that started on Doom9. Currently, AnyDVD HD is the *ONLY* product that I'm aware of that can handle MKBv4 titles. And when they release their update to handle BD+, it'll again be the only product that can handle that, too. And there's no way ANYONE can claim they were following some forum discussion and stole the work of others on that one...there has been 0 discussion on BD+ in the forums. Slysoft has a lot of really great people working for it. And those people need to get paid to be able to do the things we take for granted. It really is that simple.
I still hold to my belief that the anti-Slysoft mentality on a lot of forums stems from the fact that you make money from your work. Well, TOO BAD! You *SHOULD* make money from it!!! I really don't blame you for being upset with that kind of stuff at all. Fortunately, *WE* know who was first (and in the current case ONLY).
The real problem is, that money is an essential tool to counter these protections (not as much as is needed as to develop them, but still). I don't want to discredit the work of very bright guys like arnezami & co., but as a freeware author you face some serious problems. You need expensive software tools (compilers, decompilers, etc.), a lot of time (if you don't do this full time because you have a job, it is very tough), you need very bright and expensive experts (Peer has a degree in mathematics and is one of the best cryptology experts I ever had the pleasure to work with), a lot of hardware (drives, standalone players, XBOXes, PS3s, a lot of discs ... I believe our company library already counts more than 2000 discs in all formats from all over the world).
You can not spend much money on such things only for "fun". As a matter of fact, the HD market is still very small, so our company currently doesn't make any profit with the AnyDVD "HD" upgrade fee, we simply cover the costs. But we hope, that this will change over time if the HD market share grows.
The real problem is, that money is an essential tool to counter these protections (not as much as is needed as to develop them, but still). I don't want to discredit the work of very bright guys like arnezami & co., but as a freeware author you face some serious problems. You need expensive software tools (compilers, decompilers, etc.), a lot of time (if you don't do this full time because you have a job, it is very tough), you need very bright and expensive experts (Peer has a degree in mathematics and is one of the best cryptology experts I ever had the pleasure to work with), a lot of hardware (drives, standalone players, XBOXes, PS3s, a lot of discs ... I believe our company library already counts more than 2000 discs in all formats from all over the world).
You can not spend much money on such things only for "fun". As a matter of fact, the HD market is still very small, so our company currently doesn't make any profit with the AnyDVD "HD" upgrade fee, we simply cover the costs. But we hope, that this will change over time if the HD market share grows.
That has been mentioned somewhere, but is incorrect (it was a guess of one of our forum members).Also from what people have been able to gather AnyDVD is now using the oracle approach to crack the discs.
Our approach to MKB4 is somewhat different but that has not much to do with the actual processing of discs or calculating keys, there are other reasons for that.
I know. I fully understand all of that but a large majority of the people out there never will. They have no idea what goes into software development, much less reverse engineering a complex cryptography scheme. It's unfortunate, if you ask me. They will never fully appreciate what it is you guys do.
true, but most people dont know how most things work, and dont appreciate what goes into (R&D) but they still buy the products, generally out of need, when it comes down to HDM the harder these studios make it for people to play these movies and all the hoops they make us go through just to watch a movie on a PC the more they will drive people to products like anyDVD, when will the studios understand you cant treat your customers like criminals, the only thing DRM does is cost money