XBox 360 DVD code hacked
p2p news / p2pnet: The Xbox 360 DVD file system has been outed, says The Register, crediting a coding group calling itself Pi.
"The group said it has posted source code for a utility that allows discs’ files to be extracted and displayed as raw data," says the story.
But having got the code, you can’t do a lot with it, the group admits, although it’s, "likely to provide the foundation for work seeking to attack the content protection put in place by Microsoft.
"According to the Pi people, the Xbox 360’s file-system is essentially the same as the one employed by its predecessor console: ‘Once you get past the protections and down to the raw bits on the disc, its just the standard xboxdvdfs, however the offset and layer breakpoint are different’."
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The Register – Xbox 360 file system de-coded, December 13, 2005
December 13th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
“…to provide the foundation for work seeking to attack the content protection put in place by Microsoft.”
We don’t want to attack the content protection, we just want to exercise our fair use rights.
December 17th, 2005 at 8:36 am
What do you mean “We don’t want to attack the content protection”? Of course we want to attack the content protection. We want to eradicate it altogether. Content protection has no place in the 21st century, or any other century for that matter.