Netflix’s short stint with FMV / chooe-your-own adventure games highlights a perfect case of difficult preservation - all the runtimes are closed source apps, all the data is streamed from a server, and all the logic is held on the server.

Add to that the fact that a lot of these types of non-standard content have low engagement and interest. Which is what ultimately makes preservation and piracy harder. If you had a lot of interest it would be difficult but not impossible to recreate some of the interactive elements around them, and extract/decrypt the video content. But without interest it’s more difficult. Also ironically the lack of interest is why these things are being sunsetted in the first place. It’s kind of a perfect storm in that they are hard to preserve and there is also low interest in preserving them as well.

And if war breaks out and many countries are crippled (think post-nuclear apocalypse) that’ll help that case too. Not saying it will happen but it could.

Did you actually read what I said or did you assume I’d say something specific and then just respond to that without reading…

Never say never. Especially since we’re only in the beginning of the AI era, AI de-compilation is starting to become feasible, AI cracking probably will too.

I’m not really sure if they’re they’re the biggest userbase of Bluray movies. I know lots of them do but also many don’t, especially with the promotion of Digital-Only Game Systems and Also Streaming services. Most people I know who buy and use Blurays just have a basic Bluray player and aren’t really gamers.

I don’t think it’s a good metric since most people using Blurays don’t have their players connected to the Internet anyway. Connecting Bluray players online is a very niche use-case. It might be more popular if they had built-in Streaming Apps or NAS playback but many don’t and are just Bluray players.

Do the apps still work? The biggest issues I’ve found with Bluray players like that is that the Streaming Apps on them tend to become Obsolete and broken fairly quickly.

They don’t really, out of all the complaints I’ve heard people make about Bluray players (Disc Recognition, Region Locking) I’ve never heard them complain that it needed to be connected to the internet. It’s an optional feature, not a requirement.

They can, many have Ethernet ports and even Wifi in some cases but there’s no practical reason to do so unless they have streaming features you want to use but most don’t, and the ones that do often aren’t updated so you’ll find the Streaming Apps on them usually don’t work anymore.

Yeah it seems really strange. I know some Bluray players support Internet connectivity but unless they’re also a Streaming box I don’t see why people would connect them to the internet. Really it seems like the majority of people don’t so not sure how useful this feature is.

HDCP is easy to bypass. Almost laughable really, there are tons of “Splitters” and Strippers on the market. I’ve also seem a few totally legal capture cards that can read it directly.

I think that 4K77, 4K80, and 4K83 are the best way of watching the original trilogy. As for the order I think that’s really up to you if you prefer the release order, or chronological order, or something else.

Unlike Ryujinx they should try to have redundancies in case of Team members leaving and be willing to boot and ostracize members who attempt to sabotage the project. The other piece would be to either develop from regions where Nintendo has no legal leverage, or try to stay safe with cleanroom and PR techniques (losing battle since the USA is crooked when it comes to IP and freedom).

Also hey it’s the other NEO of Lemmy.

I don’t think people understand, big companies don’t want copyright to go away. They want themselves to be untouchable while being able to make strikes against poor people. They probably also want to change it so unlike now where copyright is about coming first they’d rather it be about being rich.

What big tech companies really want is the opposite of copyright abolition. They want control, they’ve always wanted control. Make no mistake, no matter how much they make it seem like it, they aren’t on the side of piracy.

Anyone is free to build it themselves. Someone could even distribute their own build from the same source under a different name completely legally.

You could just as easily in the spirit of this community do it with the same name and code, same way they do it for cracked games. Don’t tell me it’s not done because there are security concerns, you have no way to tell if cracked games contain secret malware in them yet people still distribute and download those.

They bank on users being lazy and then pay for the convenience.

And also pirates to not outright rip them off, which seems to be working for some reason…

They’re banking on your low standards.

Yeah this is unfortunately common, and many people are quick to defend developers like that making excuses.

Does ffmpeg handle DVD decryption through libdvdcss? I don’t think it does, it’s a tool mainly meant for file conversion and encoding of mpeg files. I could be wrong though.

At least it got leaked at all. Hopefully we’ll get another leak in the future.

That’s true, they outright lied, it’s not one of those technically true situations they outright lied and said unlimited and ban people for going over an arbitrary data limit, not even temporarily cutting off connection, outright suspending their accounts.

That makes sense, best to try and give them a chance before going the ugly route. I do try and point this out since there are a lot of people who believe you should never EVER do a chargeback since companies, especially the sleazy ones claim it’s not allowed or broadly illegal (likely because if people were more inclined to do it, they’d be in big trouble).