Blu-Ray Copy Protection Cracked?

SlySoft, an Irish firm that specializes in DVD-copying software, says it has cracked the extra layer of copy protection Sony bakes into Blu-ray discs. According to a fitful translation of a German report, company CEO Giancarlo Bettini says they've found a way around BD+, which Sony introduced with all sorts of "copy protection for the next century" rhetoric. He expects SlySoft to have Blu-ray copying software on the market by the end of the year. Adds Bettini, who no doubt has a very good reason for having his mailed delivered to Antigua:

When (will) people...understand that the more restrictions, pressures and protection measures that are applied to limit the functionality of a thing, the fewer sales that will result, not more?

Blu-ray BD+ cracked and ready to burn [The Register]