Originally Posted by cybmole

ideally we need the program authors to confirm, but my guess is that whatever key they got hold of in order to produce a program that could rip HD / blu ray , that key is now known to be compormised and so has been revoked.
And that earlier postings by the authors saving "drive has been revoked" are misleading.
the only way that an updated version of the program could work woudl be if they got hold of a different key, but then it would only be a mtter of time before that one was revoked also.
Hence recent statements from the authors that no commercial ripping solution is viable for now.

I plan to just stay with regular dvds until copy & key protection becomes less onerous. From other background reading, I'm getting that unless you have a 40 inch or larger screen, or eagle eyesight, you won't see the difference anyhow. ( & my eyesight is crap! ), and for folks who want to rip & convert to watch on tiny 3 inch handheld screens, the whole HD / blu ray thing is pointless.

Originally Posted by StormJumper

If the driver does not get revoked from playing the HD or BR disc's then maybe there is a way to use the same key the drive uses to access those disc, can't see them revoking all the drivers

Originally Posted by cybmole

It's not that simple - there's a comtinous complex exchange of keys going on between the Dvd , the dvd drive & the dvd player software as the movie decrypts. It is designed to prevent any snooping / coping of the digital exchanges.

There are also future plans to stop any hi def content reaching your TV screen or display device unless all analogue outputs (like scart outputs) are disabled. that has not been implemented yet, but it will be switched on in future, then you'll have to change your TV to one with no analogue ports ( planned for 2013 I think)

that's there to prevent you making analogue copies e.g. to video tape, or feeding the analogue signal to a PC video capture card. It's "their" bits n bytes & they're gonna do all they can to sop you maniulating them in any unapproved ways.