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user-inactivated  ·  3916 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations

Only related tangentially, but I find myself breaking DRM simply because it is such a colossal pain otherwise. I didn't really care about DVD DRM as it was broken easily so I never created rips that I uploaded to the internet. I could pop it in and the software would do the magic for me. But for Blu-ray, most decent media players cannot read them. Even with libaacs, newer discs are often unreadable. So I find my self dumping keys, decrypting the contents and copying them to a BDMV structure, encoding them and then finally enjoying whatever I paid for. Which is faster than trying to get it to work normally.