Blu-Ray Disc Copy Protection
AACS copy protection
When copying the contents of a BD disc to your hard-drive no warnings or errors similar to that when you attempt to copy a DVD seem to occur. It is presumed at this stage that the copy would just fail to play.
AnyDVD HD - scans the disc in the BD drive and declares that the AACS copy protection has been removed.
The contents of the BD disc (as seen in Windows Explorer) appear to be different when AnyDVD is loaded, and they also appear that way on your HDD.
What you will see if you try and play a copied Blu-ray disc from your HDD
Depending on the software that you use to play your BD content you will see whatever the
vendor of the software has decided to display if non-decrypted material is attempted to be
played
Above is the display that Cyberlink PowerDVD BD edition displays if you attempt to play the Blu-ray files from your hard drive. The message about updating your software is pretty much a "red herring" and what it is basically telling you is that it cannot play the Blu-ray material one of a number of unspecified reasons.
Unlike the Windows error messages that you used to see when trying this with conventional DVDs:
File system error (-2147351799) - (-1073741502) and 0x80030309 - there (seem to be be)
no such equivalents in the "Blu-ray" world. It is not known if this is by design. It would make sense, however,
as it would deny the computer user the ability to make a search for the error message as they were able to
on the regular DVD world.
A BD disc of 21.7G was indicating that it was going to take just less than an hour to copy to the HDD. The BD drive is a 4x Liteon DH-401S-08 (SATA) and the copy was made to a 1.5TByte SATA hard drive
Links
- www.blu-ray.com
- A prior page on AACS
- PowerDVD HD - an evaluation copy of PowerDVD v7 was downloaded for evaluation on the Acer Aspire notebook
- Decrypting HD Content - 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
