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Do you really own media on a Blu-ray Disc though? As I understand it, the media is encrypted with advanced DRM and can only be decrypted with a “secure” player+
by biggc 3y ago
Do you really own media on a Blu-ray Disc though? As I understand it, the media is encrypted with advanced DRM and can only be decrypted with a “secure” player+tv chain.
- austinallegro 3y agoMisinformation.
- RockRobotRock 3y agoCunningham's Law
- dmitrygr 3y agoThey can be liberated to a DRM-free format using the right software
- ycombinatrix 3y agoi thought such software is technically illegal under the DMCA
- iso8859-1 3y agothe DMCA only applies to 4.23% of the world's population
- gary_0 3y agoThanks to the Intellectual Property provisions of various international trade agreements I'm pretty sure that's not accurate.
- RealStickman_ 3y agoThanks to the EU a few percent of the world population have explicit permission to make personal copies.
- CrimsonCape 3y agoI bought a blue ray reader writer drive for my PC. I learned that apparently a PC blu ray drive cannot play movies. I own the drive, i own the disc, why can't I watch my movie? Because every customer is legally obligated to help protect the film industry's bottom line?
- goosedragons 3y agoIt can play movies. You need software that supports playback. This is true of DVD too although for awhile MS bundled one with Windows and Apple with Mac OS X. These days MS doesn't and you need to download one separately. A program like PowerDVD or WinDVD will let you play both.
- selfhoster11 3y agoAnd yet it exists anyway.
- pxeger1 3y agoEither way, they work offline, and no company can take it away from you.
- suzumer 3y agoWth aacs, can't new bluray discs revoke older certificates if they are compromised?
- thfuran 3y agoYou own it to a greater extent than you own what you get from a streaming service.