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1. mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Sep-2020 20:13:52 EDT mangeurdenuage
   >buy two euros a dvd with movie from 1959
   >put in dvd reader, launch vlc/mpv
   >bullshit copying is theft ad appears
   >ad loop infinitly
   >???
   >movie is encrypted
   >encryption is here because of the US DMCA
   >The Digital Millennium Copyright Act came into effect in 1998 in the USA. It’s a copyright law that includes anti-circumvention measures. Essentially, it makes it illegal to circumvent “technological protection measures,” including cell phone locks and protections against installing unapproved software on tablets like Apple’s iPad and Microsoft’s Surface RT (jailbreakin)
   >there's libdvdcss
   >I don't have time for this.jpg
   >copy past name of the movie in torrent search engine
   >find it
   >2 min later it works
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Sep-2020 20:28:38 EDT lnxw48a1

      in reply to
      @mangeurdenuage I'm of the belief that technological usage restrictions (TUR or DRM) are a mistake. If people want to view / listen to media and the companies make it easy and cheap enough, then the overwhelming majority of people won't take the chance of getting a malware infected file-sharing copy.
      
      (Yeah, I know. That means not telling themselves they are entitled to their bloated markups.)
   2. 6gain (6gain@loadaverage.org)'s status on Thursday, 10-Sep-2020 01:47:53 EDT 6gain

      in reply to
      I love getting DVDs from charity shops, but why did anyone ever think not being able to skip trailers was a good idea? Or to put in fun special features to watch after the film, but force you to sit through a thousand legal notices. Waaaaah.