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"Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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Post by rsync »

mindslight wrote: post #138
rsync wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I wanted to save an important repo, I would run a command like this: ssh user@rsync.net "git clone --mirror https://github.com/widevindump/Netlix-4K-Script github/2021-12-27-widevindump_Netlix-4K-Script" ... which works because the 'git' binary is maintained on rsync.net and can be executed over ssh[1]. [1] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/git.html

I'd delete this comment if I were you. The copyright cartels have ended lives for less. edit: I tried to keep it simple so that a null-edit would suffice to scrub the comment in question. But since I have to explain - the author runs the service for which they're providing instructions. This creates a straightforward argument that they intend their service to be used for storing forbidden files. Such "contributory in…

Oh, dear god please, please sue us.

The exposure, the name recognition, the PR coup that this would be ... would dwarf every effort we have ever made in over 20 years of trying to publicize our company.

Seriously: If you work for any of these "aggrieved" content providers and if you really want me to buy the Aspen house ten years early, dear god please sue us.

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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Post by CorrectHorseBat »

marcodiego wrote: post #149
alufers wrote: post #100

Can we just stop the shitshow with DRM? I have NEVER encountered a TV show/movie that I could't rip using a torrent either on public p2p sites or a private tracker. But I have seen a lot of my non-technical friends and family having a degraded experience, who pay for their streaming services every month. It was either because they were using a browser or device which was deemed unworthy of full quality streaming by t…

You're mixing up things. DRM goal is not to prevent copies, its goal is to give media producers control over the distributors.

Care to elaborate? What are they gaining from that?

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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Post by rolph »

dijit wrote: post #136
hatware wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you implying that young adults are more responsible for the state of piracy today than adults? I don't see that at all.

I feel like I have to defend the parent here. My experience in the nulling/warez/pirating community is that it tends to be young adults doing the majority of the work and mostly they do it for kudos and not monetary benefit. Adults might be giving them the kudos, but the hard work (again, in my experience) is young adults, of school age.

these young adults havent learned the utility and nessecity of anonymity

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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Post by karmakaze »

remus wrote: post #143
alufers wrote: post #100

Can we just stop the shitshow with DRM? I have NEVER encountered a TV show/movie that I could't rip using a torrent either on public p2p sites or a private tracker. But I have seen a lot of my non-technical friends and family having a degraded experience, who pay for their streaming services every month. It was either because they were using a browser or device which was deemed unworthy of full quality streaming by t…

Case in point: I can't listen to spotify on my laptop if I've got my external monitors plugged in via USB-C. Not a problem with MP3s of course.

I've never had this issue. Spotify (on Mac) uses the computer's sound output setting (laptop speakers or monitor), unless you choose another destination with the Spotify 'device' option.

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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Post by odiroot »

mongol wrote: post #128
odiroot wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a counter example, I watch Bullitt just for the car chase.

Yes but is not Bullit the original "car chase" movie?

For a moment I thought The Italian Job (the original one) was first. But you're right, Bullitt is older by a year.

Bullitt was definitely unmatched for a long time.

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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Post by wnevets »

CorrectHorseBat wrote: post #152
marcodiego wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're mixing up things. DRM goal is not to prevent copies, its goal is to give media producers control over the distributors.

Care to elaborate? What are they gaining from that?

I'm assuming the commenter you replied to is talking about the fact legitimate distributors usually follow the law. They're going to pay the large sums of money instead of breaking the DRM.

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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Post by marcodiego »

CorrectHorseBat wrote: post #152
marcodiego wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're mixing up things. DRM goal is not to prevent copies, its goal is to give media producers control over the distributors.

Care to elaborate? What are they gaining from that?

Giant media conglomerate says to Big distributor:

  - Hi distributor! Do you want to distribute our content? You just have to make sure players will have this list of anti-features.
Big distributor says to manufacturer:

  - Hi manufacturer! Do you want to play the content we distrubute? You just have to make sure your TV's will have this list of anti-features.
And here we are.

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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Post by mindslight »

rsync wrote: post #151
mindslight wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd delete this comment if I were you. The copyright cartels have ended lives for less. edit: I tried to keep it simple so that a null-edit would suffice to scrub the comment in question. But since I have to explain - the author runs the service for which they're providing instructions. This creates a straightforward argument that they intend their service to be used for storing forbidden files. Such "contributory in…

Oh, dear god please, please sue us. The exposure, the name recognition, the PR coup that this would be ... would dwarf every effort we have ever made in over 20 years of trying to publicize our company. Seriously: If you work for any of these "aggrieved" content providers and if you really want me to buy the Aspen house ten years early, dear god please sue us .

And after years of litigation, when your well-paid counsel tells you that you're going to lose and the practical path forward is to sign a settlement agreeing to scan users' files for forbidden ones? IANAA but this does seem to be the basic path that every cloud service gets sucked into.

I wish I were wrong, but I've seen no indication that courts respect digital privacy the way that physical boundaries have come to be respected (eg the US's 4th Amendment) - if you have the ability to do something about possibly forbidden communications, then you will be forced to. Digital privacy rights feel at least a few decades off, and that's assuming the centralizers don't continue to successfully embrace-extend-extinguish.

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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Post by marcodiego »

29athrowaway wrote: post #120
ramraj07 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who the hell skips car chases? What movie had a car chase that you wanted to skip that made that movie more watchable (this sentence applies to the furious films as well, skipping the chase scenes there gives you the dumbest drama of all time).

Fast and Furious 1 was a decent film that I enjoyed. I even have watched more than once. But the sequels are a different story. Those were unnecessary and absurd.

Meme scenes like "This is Brazil" and "The winner gets me" are icons of absurdity.

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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Post by m-p-3 »

jackson1442 wrote: post #147
dijit wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a guide for doing this? I think I killed my bluray drive but I'd consider buying another one if I can rip decent enough quality movies from them.

Use MakeMKV to pull an MKV off the disc, then use Handbrake to compress it to a reasonable size. Relatively easy, just takes a bit.

You can skip the MakeMKV part and directly encode through Handbrake if you add the required libraries (libaacs, libbdplus) in your Handbrake install directory and grab decryption key database (which I won't link here). You can do the same with commercial DVDs and the libdvdcss library.

Then it's just a matter of opening the disc directly in Handbrake.

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