New Version of AnyDVD Fully Removes BD+

The more things change, the more they stay the same, and the harder the copy protection is to crack, the more satisfying it is when it happens. On Wednesday Slysoft released version 6.4.0.0 of AnyDVD HD, which now fully cracks BD+.

Even more satisfying since just last year Richard Doherty of the Envisioneering Group claimed BD+, Blu-ray's latest protection scheme, would not be cracked for 10 years. Maybe he was speaking of dog years or something.

For those who don't know, AnyDVD can be used two ways: it can sit between your DVD and software like Nero, making it believe the DVD is unprotected, or it can rip the DVD to your hard drive itself. There are two versions of AnyDVD, an HD and a non-HD version.

The changelist for 6.4.0.0 is as follows:

6.4.0.0 2008 03 19

- New (Blu-ray): Removes the BD+ protection from Blu-ray discs!
(for increased compatibility with titles released by Twentieth
Century Fox :-) )
- New (Blu-ray): Added option to enable / disable BD+ removal
- New (DVD): AnyDVD ripper no longer uses the Windows filesystem, it has now its own UDF parser / reader.
Discs which cannot be read by Windows can now be copied with the AnyDVD ripper.
- Fix (Blu-ray): Black display with some BD discs, e.g., "Layer Cake", second release, "The Fugitive", "Wild Things" (all Region B)
- Fix (DVD): Small bugfix in "repairing defective disc structure" function of AnyDVD ripper
- Fix (DVD): Problems with some Arccos protected titles, e.g. "The Grudge", R1, US
- Some minor fixes and improvements
- Updated languages

Of course, a program like this should only be used for archival backups.

Start your downloading engines.