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Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing (www.bbc.com)

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Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing::In an era where many films and albums are stored in the cloud, "streaming anxiety" is making people buy more DVDs, records – and even cassette tapes.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Technically, you could dump the disc as an iso, then restore it to a disk later with the encryption intact.
Possibly not the best idea from a future access standpoint, mind!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's a good point I hadn't considered from a legal standpoint before. I believe there's also some network media players out there that can load up iso files, so in theory you could have a library of iso files that you load up as if you were playing the disc, complete with menus and all.

I have no idea if this is any better from a legal standpoint though, since you'd still be using what I assume is unauthorized software to bypass the DVD and Blu-ray encryption whenever you play the iso.

Long story short, they really need to carve out a DMCA exception for this specific conflicting case (which they've done for other conflicting situations), but I suspect there's some strong lobbying against it by interested parties...