AACS LA

AACS LA (Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator) is a consortium of which The Walt Disney Company is a part, along with IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba and Warner Bros. Founded in 2004, its purpose is to develop and license the Advanced Access Content System (AACS), a digital rights management standard that is used to encrypt Disney Blu-ray discs.
AACS was designed to improve upon the design of its predecessor, the Content Scramble System, which was completely circumvented in 1999. In April 2005, the specification for the "interim standard," which excluded some features at the request of Toshiba, was released publicly. Many versions of AACS have been circumvented, since some encryption keys have been extracted from Blu-ray player software.
==List of Disney releases with AACS==
 
Title 	Released 	AACS version
Toy Story 	March 23, 2010 	AACS v15
Toy Story 2 	March 23, 2010 	AACS v16
Toy Story 3 	November 2, 2010	AACS v19
Monsters University	October 29, 2013	AACS v31
Cars 3 	November 7, 2017	AACS v58
Toy Story 4 	October 8, 2019 	AACS v65
==Encryption key controversy==
In 2007, an AACS encryption key was published to various internet websites. AACS sent cease and desist letters to some of these websites, demanding that the key be immediately removed.
==See also==
*Disney Blu-ray
Category:Disney videos and DVDs
Category:Home Video