Russian company releases DeUHD to remove copy protection from Ultra HD Blu-ray discs

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/03/2017 08:49 AM | source: | 9 comment(s)

A Russian company found a way to remove the AACS copy protection of Ultra HD Blu-ray movies. The company, called Arusoft, offers a trial of their software ‘DeUHD’ that limits decrypting to a single disc and only 8 – 10 minutes. That means the heft copy-protection now really is cracked.

The software sells at €199 (about $233) and doesn’t decrypt regular Blu-ray discs. There is currently little information available about the company Arusoft other than that they state to be Russian developers states myce today:

Nevertheless, the developers claim to be able to remove the (AACS 2.0) copy protection from Ultra HD Blu-ray discs. DeUHD works on Windows 7, Windows 8(.1) and Windows 10. It does its job in the background and will automatically rip Ultra HD Blu-ray movies when inserted in a compatible optical drive. The resulting decrypted movie can either be saved as folder or ISO file to the HDD and played back with software like VLC Player, Media Player Classic or KMPlayer. Arusoft claims the picture quality is 1:1 with the original.

DeUHD software doesn’t work on all Ultra HD Blu-ray players and with all movies yet. Currently supported devices are LG WH16NS40, LG BH16NS40, ASUS BW-12B1ST, ASUS BC-12D2HT, ASUS BW-16D1HT, LG BE16NU50, LG BH16NS55 and the LG WH16NS58. The developers write on their website that support for more optical drives will follow soon.

Also not all movies can be decrypted yet, currently the software is able to decrypt about 30 movies according to the Arusoft website. Amongst others, these are The Martian, Mad Max: Fury Roaddisc, The Amazing Spider-Man, Life of Pi, Independence Day, Central Intelligence, The Shallows, X-Men: Apocalypse, The Legend of Tarzan, Star Trek Beyond, War Dogs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Suicide Squad, Sullydisc, Jack Reacher Never Go Back, John Wick, Hacksaw Ridge, Passengers, Sing, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. A full list with all supported movies can be found here.

According to Arusoft, there will be new movies supported every week and users can request/report new discs to be supported. Decryption of a disc takes about 4-6 hours, Arusoft tells us. You can download the trial software here

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xIcarus
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#5477978 Posted on: 10/03/2017 01:12 PM

Wait, shouldn't stuff like this be illegal? Or is it some kind of grey area?

RzrTrek
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#5477985 Posted on: 10/03/2017 01:21 PM

I think they did a good job, but it probably won't be up for long.

sammarbella
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#5478005 Posted on: 10/03/2017 02:26 PM

I'll wait for the torrent.

I'm not going to pay for a crack software.

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#5478040 Posted on: 10/03/2017 03:50 PM

Wait, shouldn't stuff like this be illegal? Or is it some kind of grey area?

I don't think so; this shouldn't be any more illegal than DVD decryption or torrenting. The existence and development of the tool isn't illegal either, just where and how customers use it, much like a gun. To my understanding, in most countries you're legally allowed to own this software, but once you use it to remove the copy protection of a Hollywood movie for example, you are now doing something illegal.

It's interesting how laws and ToS documents work when it comes to software. For example, you are legally allowed to buy install Mac OS on any PC you want, but, you are not allowed to sell a non-Apple PC with Mac pre-installed on it.

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#5478041 Posted on: 10/03/2017 03:50 PM

That's great, but there aren't even many drives that can read these discs yet.
I bought AnyDVD since I have a very large movie collection and it's been well worth the money, but they have said they have no interest in working on UHD discs yet.

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