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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by boomboomsubban on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:45AM (#29934330)
You are, the DMCA tasked the Library of Congress with approving exceptions to the anti-circumvention provision. Here's the list of when it's acceptable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...
Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by e44858 on Friday January 14, 2022 @09:06PM (#29942909)
Looks like ripping movies was just made legal:

> The 2021 exemptions, issued in October 2021, are for:[15]

> Motion pictures (including television shows and videos), as defined in 17 U.S.C. 101, where circumvention is undertaken solely in order to make use of short portions of the motion pictures for the purpose of criticism or comment, for supervised educational purposes, to accommodate for accessibility for disabled students in educational institutions, for preservation of the motion picture by a library, archive, or museum, or for research purposes at educational institutions;

Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by boomboomsubban on Friday January 14, 2022 @11:17PM (#29943483)
No, a version of that exemption was first added in 2010. Each exemption has to be readded every new listing.

And that exemption only adds cases in which stripping DRM from a DVD becomes legal. It's still generally illegal, and most people using makemkv are likely using it illegally.