Finally handling BD+ (?)

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Originally Posted by loric

What happens with people that bought a stand-alone player? Do they need to update the firmware to play discs protected with the latest BD+ scheme? Or does that work like AASC, i.e. with revocations affecting only software players and, maybe, the PS3?

They might have to update the player firmware by allowing the player to temporary access the internet or downloading the update manually and burning it to disc. Note that the content code is selecting which program to run based in it's analysis of TRAP_DeviceDiscovery, TRAP_DiscoveryRAM etc ("fingerprint"). It can skip any intensive testing if the player is considered trustworthy (because no hacks known) and therefor it is unlikely that this player would need regular updates if any.
Furthermore don't think of it like the BD+ specification is constantly changing and everyone has to flash it's firmware every month or so. As usual the vendors haven't implemented every detail so their implementations are not fully BD+ conform but these players will probably work fine for a long period of time. This is changing once hacks for a particular player model are known. In this case the content code starts running a lot of checks and might even refuse to generate the conversion table if the certificates and other keys are too old. This is when the vendor is forced to release updates. I believe it is known to the industry which player AnyDVD-HD is emulating but SlySoft doesn't seem to be willing to switch to a different model.

Originally Posted by Doom9

Slysoft now says they need 1-2 months to take care of those

That would be longer than we needed to reverse engineer the entire thing. strange...