Thursday, April 12, 2007

Hackers Exploit Xbox 360 HD DVD Drive In No Time

In this short period of time the HD DVD drive add-on for the Xbox 360 has been on the market, hackers and crackers have already found a way to exploit it. A hacker who calls himself Geremia on the Doom9 forums has found a way to obtain the Volume ID without AACS authentication of an HD DVD disc. This information of course is used to make "backups" of the disc. But we all know this will lead to piracy.

As always, this kind of exploit requires re-flashing the firmware of the drive, but more recent updates say it can also be done without flashing the firmware.

For more information, read here for more commonly asked questions as to why a crack such as this is important.

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