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That was fast: HD DVD has been cracked and is now available over BitTorrent.

Sony’s Blu-Ray Disc is now the only commercially available video format which has yet to be cracked. Given the movie industry’s voracity for digital rights management, this should be a huge advantage for Sony. Every day that passes while Blu-Ray remains uncompromised should be a dagger in the heart for HD DVD. As of January 2007, the format war is too close to call, but the HD DVD crack should be a tipping point.

And dammit, of course I went with the Blu-Ray player (it is a superior technology at the physical layer). Guess I’ll be waiting a little longer before I can do any “backing up” of Blu-Ray discs.

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