Gizmodo
reports that hackers have succeeded in ripping a Blu-ray movie disc and PS3
game titles to the internal hard drive. While the 60GB hard drive may seem large
enough for a couple of movies, let's not forget that Blu-ray titles can be as
large as 50GB in size, assuming a fully filled dual-layer Blu-ray disc. The
movie Talledega Night came to 20.9GB once copied across. Hackers have also
succeeded in copying the contents of PS3 discs across.
However, even though hackers may have succeeded in ripping the contents of a
variety of PS3 game titles and Blu-ray disc movies, it will likely be some time
before they figure a way of cracking the encryption. In fact, part of the reason
Blu-ray has been delayed so many times was due to trying to finalise its copy
protection measures, so chances are that it could be a long way yet. Even if
they do succeed, new copy protection measures can be introduced on newly
released Blu-ray titles that will prevent the hack from working on new titles,
unlike CSS where once the system is cracked, it is broken for good.