Someone may have broken a form of encryption of DVDs that until now everyone thought they were unbroken. This might mean that it will soon be possible to download 4K Blu-Ray movies via bittorrent.
According to TorrentFreak, a supposed, broken copy of The Smurfs 2, appeared in the HD Bit Torrent UltraHDClub community. At present we do not know more details.
4K Blu-Ray movies on DVD are protected with Advanced Content Content System (AACS) 2.0, an encryption that has not yet been broken. And we say it's not broken yet, but that's not quite the case, when you consider that until now anyone who wanted to distribute a 4K Blu-Ray was copying it through the screen, resulting in a loss of quality.
Let's just say that if a method to break the protection of 4K Blu-Ray DVDs has really been found, it would cause a very large problem to movie distributors that use AACS encryption. According to the AACS website, encryption is used by Disney, Sony, and Warner Bros.
If so, you may soon be able to access in HD pirated content though the file sizes will be huge (the Smurfs 2 disc is 53GB).
