It won’t win any awards for hacking elegance, but somebody has already figured out a way to copy Blu-Ray and HD DVDs: hit the PrintScreen key. According to a piece on Ars Technica, quoting from an article in the German tech mag c’t, someone has developed a brute force copying method that involves a script which does a PrintScreen for every frame of a high-def DVD. It gobbles up over 300GBs of space, and you have to capture the sound separately and re-sync it, but it just shows to go ya, that if there’s a hacker’s will, there’s always a hacker’s way.
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