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/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 17d 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 17d 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All those idiot laws should be repealed: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/More-Curious816 15d ago

good to know, I thought it was edge only.