San Francisco - The same exploit used to crack part of the anti-piracy technology on the next-generation HD DVD format has been successfully used on the rival Blu-ray format, Wired News reported on Monday.

A hacker calling himself Muslix64, who also claims credit for the HD DVD crack that resulted in HD copies of films including "Serenity" appearing on the BitTorrent file-sharing network, takes partial credit for the Blu-ray crack, along with another programmer called Janvitos.

Neither of the exploits completely removes the fundamental security technology on the advanced DVD formats, but can work around the AACS encryption -- a digital rights management security -- when coupled with a particular movie's unique "key."

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