Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU platform?

Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by flotzam on Friday January 14, 2022 @12:53PM (#29937640)

I'm not sure that the modded firmware even includes the actual low-level read routines. Isn't the whole thing split up to load them into the drive's RAM after every power cycle? If that's the case then the modded firmware alone is arguably not a circumvention device, and neither is the drive once it's powered down. :P

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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by bitwize on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:22PM (#29938051)

LibreDrive disables the "policing", i.e., the software that makes the drive refuse to read due to a wrong region code, revoked key, etc. This counts as an "effective technological measure" separate from any decryption, etc. the drive performs and LibreDrive is thus likely a circumvention device under the DMCA. Publishing it would therefore be a felony, punishable by up to five years in federal prison, in addition to civil penalties.

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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by flotzam on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:44PM (#29938385)

Agreed but LibreDrive is the system as a whole (before decryption, sure). I was curious about the persistent component of that system, the modded firmware.

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