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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by extraduder_ire on Thursday October 19, 2023 @03:06AM (#37939477)
What extra odd things could they have done to DVDs that would make them harder to rip? I assume they wouldn't want to break compatibility with existing players.

Mainstream DVDs have pretty much always been a collection of .TS files on the disc, best ripped with specialized software. Things like VLC pull in those libraries upon install anyway. Also, I think you mean "rip" rather than "burn", if you mean to copy data from the disc to your machine.

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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by DoingIsLearning on Thursday October 19, 2023 @04:19AM (#37940003)
Today I learned a fair deal, burn!=rip, and that DVDs have always had chunked .ts files. Definitely had to bring in a bunch of new libs on Debian (still on 'bullseye') to make it work, nothing automagic happened.
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