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Blu-ray and HD drives open to piracy.(high definition)(Brief article)

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Byline: Clive Akass

Blu-ray and HD drives open to piracy

Blu-ray and HD DVD high-definition formats contain a major hole that allows anyone to pirate HD movies, according to German magazine c't.

The magazine's team managed to take high-resolution screenshots of HD movies played on Windows XP PCs or laptops by simply pressing the Print Screen key (PrtScr).

This function can be automated easily to take screenshots of the entire movie. It could then be recompiled in a movie format with the separately captured audio track mixed back in.

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