Apparently so, according to Dailytech.  The latest version of SlySoft AnyDVD HD came with the ability to rip the Blu-ray DVD’s movie in high-def.  As both a tech enthusiast and a pretty stereotypical asian, I must say that I’m pretty interested in such a piece of news.  However, let it be known that I don’t pirate.  After all, if I started pirating, it could wreck the delicate balance between the two worlds of legitimacy and piracy.

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What does this mean?  Since Blu-Ray’s defense has been cracked before, I suppose that Sony will be forced to invent a third method of encrypting the data.  And they’ll have to do it soon – because if they let this go as rampant as the forging of fake DVDs do, the Blu-Ray market will be saturated with cheap, fake copies of movies in their original high-definition format.  What a nightmare for the movie industry.

As a loyal movie fan (not a fanatic, just a fan), I suggest that you be very careful about which side you decide to take.  Sure, the piracy might seem much more affordable, but if everyone thought like that on a larger scale, we wouldn’t have any new movies to watch because the companies would all go broke.  They’re still fatcats – for now, but let’s face it: they’re not as fat as they once used to be.