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Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise by amargulies on Thursday May 09, 2024 @11:46AM (#40309414)
Simple example: My wife wants to consume certain Austrian/German content in Canada which are not available on any streaming service here. The streaming services there (Germany/Austria) do not support Canada. She was gifted DVDs of them, but that means she can't watch them on her phone or tablet (or laptop without a usb dvd drive that's region coded to Europe). Options are to: - rip the DVDs (done some of her collection, pain in the butt unless you have a specific setup for doing it en-masse. Some shows end up with episodes out of order) - download the shows

And this is when she's lucky enough the show/movie had a DVD release.

Similar problems exist for local content that doesn't exist on streaming sites altogether (bunch of things I grew up watching that I'd like to revisit).

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Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise by DarkUranium on Thursday May 09, 2024 @11:54AM (#40309493)
Note that ripping DVDs is still piracy if said DVDs contain DRM[1], at least in the US. I don't know about CA, but I'd imagine it's similar, considering the state of copyright ...

[1] Region locking is a form of DRM, and most DVDs at least used to be region-locked. I don't know if that's still common practice nowadays.

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Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise by ThunderSizzle on Thursday May 09, 2024 @12:25PM (#40309852)
In the US, it's only a legal violation if you try selling it. For personal use, you can rip DVDs.

Granted, the media companies use civil lawsuits to also make it feel illegal.

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