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The MPA has big plans to crack down on movie piracy again (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by s08nlql9@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

DVDs and Blurays are still pretty common. They're not actually DRM-free, but DVD DRM is completely broken and BR decryption keys seem to be easily obtained. And you can rip the disc if you want to make a digital copy.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

Their days are numbered though as companies like Best Buy won't carry them anymore.

[-] vorpuni@jlai.lu 0 points 10 months ago

They have DRM, even if easy to go around it, it doesn't make sense to pay loads for a shitty medium with obstacles to getting what's on it… it sends the wrong message to the criminal organisations peddling them.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

No, offering them more money to remove those obstacles sends the wrong message. It would literally save them money to leave it out, so in what world would that entitle them to more of your money or mine?

[-] vorpuni@jlai.lu 1 points 10 months ago

That's what I wrote.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Looks like you and I both meant to respond to this other comment by @GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org : https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/9293054 https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/9620373
https://jlai.lu/comment/6487794

... well shit. Anyone know how I can link a comment in an instance-agnostic way? Ridiculous that while all three of those links go to the same comment, the commenter I'm replying to can only really interact with one of them ... and why the hell does user tagging seem to be broken? I had to manually create that link.

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

AFAIK there's still no way to dynamically link to posts or comments on Lemmy. :( You can only link communities or users.

Anyway, totally agree. Being technically able to bypass DRM doesn't make it okay. I'm honestly not sure how to rip a Blu-ray on Linux anyway. I haven't looked into it in years so maybe it's easier now than I remember.