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submitted 1 month 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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[-] tkw8@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago

Physical disc in a cd/dvd/bluray drive

[-] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.

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