Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I’m still getting justified in my boycott of anything Sony that started in 2005, when they bricked my PC for daring to put a Sony CD in my computer’s CD player! Fucking rootkit.

Yes I’m still holding that grudge and I will not relent, for as long as I live.

Any movie I watch I make sure it’s not a Sony product, any music I listen to, I make doubly sure it’s not from a Sony studio. Any electronics I buy, I make triply sure it doesn’t contain any Sony product. Sony is not getting a dime from me ever again!

Fuck Sony!

"It also enables the delivery of advertising content"

They already paid for the product! Double-dipping assholes

Piracy is now better and safer than using "real" discs. Well done, Sony.

Yeah I just straight up pirate movies now, I don't even try to hide it from people anynore. It's clear to me at this point that all these companies care about is getting richer by the minute off the backs of the common man, and their excuses for doing so are getting more and more pathetic.

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

Haha no it doesn’t.

unplugs NIC

rips blu-ray with blu-ray drive running old firmware

This isn't a EULA in that it still allows you to use the product even if you decline...

This option is available with most modern games these days. They often ask you to click "approve" twice, knowing you won't read either and knowing that you believe that you need to accept both to proceed. When in reality, the second one is almost always optional (perhaps even by law because of laws in the EU).

Still gross. And definitely a major dark pattern, but if people just took an extra 3 seconds to double check, they'd stop sending all of their data to these companies.

I legitimately cannot remember the last time I paid for a movie or TV show, or music.

Digitally, or physically.

Even if you count streaming services, its been over 5 years since I laid for Spotify... stopped paying for any kind of on demand videos before even that.

Friends wanna watch a movie at my place? Oh, I have a 10 TB library.

Oh, at your place? Does your TV have a USB port? Tell me its model number and I can figure out what codecs it can actually read.

Welp, blu ray playyæer sure don't need no internet - gimme dumb technology plz

The fact that they don't give you the option to "refuse" but rather to "skip" annoys me to such an extent. Leave us alone, you never needed to do this.

My Blu Ray player has never been connected to the web, its region free, but doesn't do 4k-BD. My Linux HTPC is configured with an ASUS libredrive, and has MakeMKV installed. The Linux variant of MakeMKV is borked right now, in a good way! The 30 day trial period doesn't expire!

If I wanna watch a 4k bluray I have to rip it and watch it on my PC, because I'd rather do that than get a BD player that needs internet

can we find a way to spoof this so that they think legit physical disk usage is going up?

Can you share which movie this was? I've never seen anything like that.

Does it still work by clicking skip?

Wait do modern Blu-ray players connect to the Internet?

Edit: it’s really cool when people do that annoying Reddit thing where they all want to say the exact same thing for some reason so they all pretend they don’t see all the other comments saying exactly the same thing too.

At least you can watch BDs without a web connection still. For now....

Also, LibreDrive is a thing for hacking BD drives with in order to bypass DRM, but I wouldn't be surprised if that got blocked and/or taken down at some point.

What happens of you hit skip. Does it not let you play the disk?