ACMS is hacked Advanced Access Content System (AACS) was the name of the protection structure built for HD-DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs and was considered virtually unbreakable by experts. Several sources report that (coverage here, here and here) a guy who nicks himself muslix64 has done it in only 8 days vs. his initial plan of 4 weeks. Here, you can see the original forum threads and watch this video on YouTube to see how he did it.

The news has become popular on the net very quickly. The YouTube video was viewed 60.902 times in the time of writing this post. Now it is the consortium’s turn to make a press release and put a video on YouTube.