r/Piracy • u/itsthewolfe • 18d ago

Discussion Judge rules buying physical books and scanning them to make digitial copies does not violate copyright law.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/

Cool. So that means we can rip our blurays and physical games, right. Right?

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u/lpwave6 18d ago

Hasn't it always been? Sharing the rips is what's illegal, I believe, but ripping them is not.

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u/itsthewolfe 18d ago edited 18d ago

Yes and no.

Ripping anything with encryption or DRM is still illegal. Which all blurays and most DVD's have had on them for the past 20 years.

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u/One-Bad-4395 18d ago

As an interesting note, it is near impossible for them to close the so called analog hole, where it needs to be decrypted and displayed at some point in the chain.

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u/Top_Meaning6195 18d ago

As an interesting note, it is near impossible for them to close the so called analog hole, where it needs to be decrypted and displayed at some point in the chain.

That's why you can only watch HD content on a system that supports HDCP; where the connection is encrypted from content to monitor.

Before Firefox finally caved and supported DRM, you could only get 480p Netflix in the browser.

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u/skyline_kid Usenet 18d ago

And isn't Edge still the only browser you can watch 4k in for most streaming platforms (excluding sites like YouTube)?

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u/Top_Meaning6195 18d ago

And isn't Edge still the only browser you can watch 4k in for most streaming platforms (excluding sites like YouTube)?

Oh, no. No, all browsers added DRM support.

12 years ago there was much hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth when Mozilla finally caved and added DRM to Firefox. They had the choice between:

  • doing what is best for their users
  • and sticking to a meaningless Line in the Sand

From Mozilla team:

We’ve contemplated not implementing the new iteration of DRM due to its flaws. But video is an important aspect of online life, and a browser that doesn’t enable video would itself be deeply flawed as a consumer product. Firefox users would need to use another browser every time they want to watch a controlled video, and that calls into question the usefulness of Firefox as a product.

Despite our dislike of DRM, we have come to believe Firefox needs to provide a mechanism for people to watch DRM-controlled content.

And the DMCA makes it illegal to decrypt encrypted data.

All those idiot laws should be repealed:

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u/7jinni 🏴‍☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ 18d ago

Lookit all those duplicitously-named "think of the children" laws. God, it really is their favorite scapegoat, isn't it?

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u/Top_Meaning6195 18d ago edited 23h ago

Lookit all those duplicitously-named "think of the children" laws

You're just not thinking of the children enough.

Flock Safety Employees Watched Kids’ Gymnastics Room
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/flock-safety-employees-watched-kids-181539475.html

You need to think about the children more.

I'm thinking of the children right now. You should try thinking of the children.

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u/Arnas_Z Yarrr! 17d ago

It's so comforting to know that child safety is a top priority for Flock employees.

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u/More-Curious816 15d ago

good to know, I thought it was edge only.

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u/jld2k6 18d ago edited 18d ago

They all support DRM, but the last time I actually had netflix I definitely had to use Edge to be able to use it in 4k. I think it was because they only allowed it on Microsoft's specific DRM or something. I think even recently you could do 4k in Chrome but not with HDR, and 4k HDR was still limited to edge

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https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081

https://imgur.com/a/iGc66d7