It seems that the humble "Print Screen" key could be used to break the copy protection on next-generation discs.
No, you don't have to sit there and press it a million times in order to capture a film - you'll just write a piece of code that automates the process - multiple times for each frame of a HD film. Of course, you'll also need to find some way of stringing them together, capturing and sync'ing the audio.
OK, so it's not something everyone's able to do, but it does sound possible, and (at least by computing standards) it's distinctly lo-tech.
Charlie White at Gizmodo waxes lyrical "You can't lock down eyeballs. Information wants to be free, and this is just the first crack in those walls of Jericho, soon to be tumbling down"
Quite.
Whether this is a realistic threat or method of piracy, manufacturers of both hardware and software - including Toshiba and Intervideo (makers of the WinDVD software) - say they can plug the holes. But isn't trying to disable Print Screen unfair? I mean, we're not all going to try to capture whole chunks of content one frame at a time, right?
A program could be made to audimate the process
Well surely to do this, you need a hd-dvd, or blu-ray drive in your pc, which hardly anyone has. And this isnt as big a thing as if there was a rpogram which actually could copy from hd-dvd to hd-dvd-rw. And to do this, you would need a hd-dvd-rw drive. Im not even sure if they exist. And what use is ahving a hd-dvd on your computer, when to get it onto your computer, you have to have the disc in the first place. Granted, it is a breakthrough, but not of any use really