Is it possible to rip movie straight from cinema? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by montar@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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As in title, i'm just wondering whether it is possible to rip movie from cinema if one has got unsupervised access to cinema's hardware. Maybe someone did that? I'm not talking about caming, i'm talking about making a digital copy of premiere material.

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[-] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 72 points 3 months ago

The movie at a cinema isn't a regular mp4 file, it's a massive 100-300gb proprietary file that needs a valid license key to even be played back during a specific time period. Good luck decrypting the file or getting the company that issues the keys to the cinemas to give you a key because you're not getting it to play early. Iirc somehow the Korean rip of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie was leaked early and something similar happened with the My Little Pony movie, but those fan bases are incredibly autistic and will find a way.

[-] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 3 months ago

so what you're saying is that we must infiltrate the drm company and plant a secret backdoor that can be used to bypass the activation key

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

probably easier to mess with the projector so it records a local file that is a copy of what is being projected, which would already been decrypted. With this if you can infiltrate the DRM company you only need the schematics of the projector, not an active malware to steal new keys.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 12 points 3 months ago

I'd infiltrate said company only to make sure it goes bankrupt asap

[-] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

that's a good question, what would happen to the movie if the company behind the drm goes under? i assume that cinemas have some contingency to still be able to play the movie in that case right?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

Unless the companies sell their DRM as a service instead of a per-movie-product, nothing would happen, I suppose, other than no more customer support. I suspect any online checks the DRM does is with the movie owners rather than the software developer.

[-] montar@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

Yeah, there's no need to pirate at the cinema when you can pirate at the studio. Anyway how in my Lord Satan they made that file that huge, it's 12K resolution or what?

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 3 months ago

It's either 2K or 4K video. The bitrate needs to be high because any compression artifacts would be very obvious on a huge screen.

[-] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago

Again it's not a traditional video file. Iirc its a series of really high quality unconpressed images being played back at once with audio. The max resolution is is 4k but even the 1080p films can be 100gb. The real knee slapper is when the video's resolution is 4k but the projector is old so it can only output max 1080p.