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submitted 1 week ago by tkw8@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Tried to support the industry by buying a movie a watch a lot. Well, no more. If I need a pihole just to watch a movie I own, that's ridiculous.

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[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 69 points 1 week ago

Why is your Blu-ray player connected to the internet?

[-] tkw8@lemm.ee 58 points 1 week ago

VLC on a Linux laptop. You think my Blu-ray player has the ability to take screenshots?

[-] musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 48 points 1 week ago

Yes, and I assume you wrote this message on your blu-ray player and typed it with your remote

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You never heard of a capture card?

Can I introduce you to my friend MakeMKV?

[-] tkw8@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

MakeMKV handles my Blu-ray decryption for VLC

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago
[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

HDCP is easy to bypass. Almost laughable really, there are tons of "Splitters" and Strippers on the market. I've also seem a few totally legal capture cards that can read it directly.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

You can crack anything if you are remotely motivated.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Never say never. Especially since we're only in the beginning of the AI era, AI de-compilation is starting to become feasible, AI cracking probably will too.

Empress called it quits after she went insane. I don't think we're doing to get Denuvo crackers for quite a while....

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Did you actually read what I said or did you assume I'd say something specific and then just respond to that without reading...

[-] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 week ago

Does VLC report this? Kinda seems like the sorta thing that only works on actual players.

[-] tkw8@lemm.ee 32 points 1 week ago

It tried to. I use an opnsense firewall which caught it. I copied my logs and submitted the domains to a popular dns blocklist and they’ve already been merged.

[-] B0rax@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago
[-] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Was this like an iso file of the disk that you played played in vlc? And you're saying it tried to ping that telemetry domain? I'm not quite understanding the context here.

[-] tkw8@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Physical disc in a cd/dvd/bluray drive

[-] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So you put the physical disk in and it plays through vlc player on your pc?

If so, are you sure it was vlc that pinged the domain and not the bluray player?

[-] tkw8@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Both devices made ping attempts. Not hard to confirm with firewall logs bc of timestamps and internal IP addresses.

[-] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 week ago

Interesting. Got it. Pihole is helpful as you said. Also maybe set a firewall rule for vlc not be able to connect to the wider Internet.

[-] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 week ago

Disconnect from the internet while watching. Close it when you finished. Restart your computer, then connect to the internet and you should be fine I think

[-] tkw8@lemm.ee 39 points 1 week ago

I’m all good. I really wasn’t asking for tech support. Just sharing something with the community. Don’t worry, Sony didn’t get my data.

Thanks for the helpful thoughts though.

[-] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago
[-] potatobro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 week ago
[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

I am sometimes surprised to find new things VLC can do, it's awesome.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But for real, does it play blu rays? I was under the impression it did not and you had to get that $100 program.

[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago

It does. Last time I did it, though, it required a couple of files to get going. Have a look here for info: http://fvonline-db.bplaced.net/

[-] tkw8@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

It does but I use makemkv for the Blu-ray decryption

[-] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Not UHD discs. Those don't play on windows.

[-] AgentRocket@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Not out of the box, AFAIK, but there is a plugin. I never got it to work though, because you also need some up-to-date certification file.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah it seems really strange. I know some Bluray players support Internet connectivity but unless they're also a Streaming box I don't see why people would connect them to the internet. Really it seems like the majority of people don't so not sure how useful this feature is.

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