Tried to support the industry by buying a movie a watch a lot. Well, no more. If I need a pihole just to watch a movie I own, that’s ridiculous.

  • @Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz
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    “It also enables the delivery of advertising content”

    They already paid for the product! Double-dipping assholes

      • Nate Cox
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        252 months ago

        No, I am 100% certain they know that the vast majority of people don’t care and some people really really hate it, but nobody actually enjoys it.

        • @baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
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          262 months ago

          Someone I know who is currently on a pseudoscience and conspiracy theory arc genuinely believes that personalized ads are good because then you can easily buy things you know you’ll like

            • @baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
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              the idea of “just browse the web normally with someone looking over your shoulder taking notes on what you like to then sell you shit - or even better, it infers what you like using magic and can even tell when you’re pregnant before you know it yourself” can be nice in some ways I guess, but yeah I agree. no thanks.

  • Lka1988
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    Yeah I just straight up pirate movies now, I don’t even try to hide it from people anynore. It’s clear to me at this point that all these companies care about is getting richer by the minute off the backs of the common man, and their excuses for doing so are getting more and more pathetic.

      • @SynAcker@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        142 months ago

        Me too. By the time a movie or TV show actually makes it to distribution, most people who worked on it have already made their paycheck and moved on to the next project.

    • @baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
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      What capitalists are doing is intentionally sharpening the contradiction, probably with the goal of a revolution or reform in their favor (as can be seen in the USA right now). The neat thing about sharpened contradictions is that it will inevitably lead to change, the bad thing is that this is a massively organized effort with tons of planning and coordination, and The People:tm: are not ready for it.

      Pirating movies is pretty good though. Mainstream media always manages to exploit labor incredibly harshly, to the point of suicide, and that behavior should not be rewarded IMO. Of course there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but one can dream. As an aside, pirated media is also incredibly convenient. There is a great community spirit in the piracy community.

  • Cassa
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    442 months ago

    Welp, blu ray playyæer sure don’t need no internet - gimme dumb technology plz

    • Pika
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      92 months ago

      usually bluray and 4k players need to connect to the internet at least once in order to download the codecs, but like yea I disconnect mine from the internet right after

  • Ulrich
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    422 months ago

    Why is your Blu-ray player connected to the internet?

    • @tkw8@lemm.eeOP
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      342 months ago

      VLC on a Linux laptop. You think my Blu-ray player has the ability to take screenshots?

      • Ulrich
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        172 months ago

        You never heard of a capture card?

        Can I introduce to my friend MakeMKV?

        • @tkw8@lemm.eeOP
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          172 months ago

          It tried to. I use an opnsense firewall which caught it. I copied my logs and submitted the domains to a popular dns blocklist and they’ve already been merged.

          • @FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org
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            Was this like an iso file of the disk that you played played in vlc? And you’re saying it tried to ping that telemetry domain? I’m not quite understanding the context here.

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                So you put the physical disk in and it plays through vlc player on your pc?

                If so, are you sure it was vlc that pinged the domain and not the bluray player?

                • @tkw8@lemm.eeOP
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                  Both devices made ping attempts. Not hard to confirm with firewall logs bc of timestamps and internal IP addresses.

      • @Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com
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        62 months ago

        Disconnect from the internet while watching. Close it when you finished. Restart your computer, then connect to the internet and you should be fine I think

        • @tkw8@lemm.eeOP
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          222 months ago

          I’m all good. I really wasn’t asking for tech support. Just sharing something with the community. Don’t worry, Sony didn’t get my data.

          Thanks for the helpful thoughts though.

    • Draconic NEO
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      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.

  • Arthur Besse
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    The industry will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and protect its revenue streams ... It will not lose that revenue stream, no matter what ... Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this. We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source – we will block it at your cable company. We will block it at your phone company. We will block it at your ISP. We will firewall it at your PC ... These strategies are being aggressively pursued because there is simply too much at stake. - Steve Heckler, senior vice president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc, August 2000

    quote from https://web.archive.org/web/20010201204600/http://www.nyfairuse.org/sony.xhtml

    via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

    "Pepperidge Farm Remembers" meme, but with the face of Elrond (Hugo Weaving) from the "i was there 3000 years ago" meme. no text

  • madjo
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    I’m still getting justified in my boycott of anything Sony that started in 2005, when they bricked my PC for daring to put a Sony CD in my computer’s CD player! Fucking rootkit.

    Yes I’m still holding that grudge and I will not relent, for as long as I live.

    Any movie I watch I make sure it’s not a Sony product, any music I listen to, I make doubly sure it’s not from a Sony studio. Any electronics I buy, I make triply sure it doesn’t contain any Sony product. Sony is not getting a dime from me ever again!

    Fuck Sony!

    • DFX4509B
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      62 months ago

      That rootkit thing failed miserably, thankfully, and audio CDs have been DRM-free ever since.

      • madjo
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        72 months ago

        Sure, but I’m not touching anything Sony with a 10 foot pole.

        • DFX4509B
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          Sure, but I’m not touching anything Sony with a 10 foot pole.

          That’s going to discount most of the camera market if not the entire camera market then because Sony makes basically everyone’s imaging sensors, plus a large portion of the anime genre given that company bought out Funimation.

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              And even if you do boycott Sony, that’ll discount entire market segments and almost entire content niches as I just mentioned.

    • @ehxor@lemmy.ca
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      Yes! I’ve never met anyone else who’s been boycotting Sony since the rootkit! Maybe there are dozens of us? Either way: fuck Sony!

  • IngeniousRocks (They/She)
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    My Blu Ray player has never been connected to the web, its region free, but doesn’t do 4k-BD. My Linux HTPC is configured with an ASUS libredrive, and has MakeMKV installed. The Linux variant of MakeMKV is borked right now, in a good way! The 30 day trial period doesn’t expire!

    If I wanna watch a 4k bluray I have to rip it and watch it on my PC, because I’d rather do that than get a BD player that needs internet

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    At least you can watch BDs without a web connection still. For now…

    Also, LibreDrive is a thing for hacking BD drives with in order to bypass DRM, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that got blocked and/or taken down at some point.

  • @NGC2346@sh.itjust.works
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    The fact that they don’t give you the option to “refuse” but rather to “skip” annoys me to such an extent. Leave us alone, you never needed to do this.

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    LMFAO. And when I tell people to take care about leaving Jellyfin public with their open API endpoint issues… Yeah Sony WILL abuse your shit… They already do it.

    • @ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
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      I run a pivpn setup so that nothing is exposed to the internet at all. It’s just too dangerous now. It was bad back in the day, but now I literally have bots trying to join any public facing Minecraft server. It’s so many times worse now than it was a decade ago.

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        I guess the bots are trying to find servers still vulnerable to the Log4J exploit. Man that was a juicy one 👀

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        Oh man. I have an open minecraft server for my kids and their friends. Every few weeks I have someone show up to the server leaving notes or interacting with us trying to educate me on whitelisting.

        I get more “educators” than i do bots. It’s actually quite annoying. I dont know what accounts these kids login with, you’re not educating me. The server is literally for 6-8 year olds. It’s been wiped 100s of times. I don’t care. Stop. The server is grief resistant anyway. And my ban list is long (and getting at least one longer). /little rant

        • LiveLM
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          I mean, it would take seconds for someone to log in and paste bad links in chat/send weird messages so yeah, a server for a 6-8 yr olds is absolutely one I would turn whitelist on for.

          • @Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net
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            I have never had any of my MC servers run without a whitelist, even the one I had publicly listed on planet minecraft back in the day. You should know who has access to your machines on some level.

            • @Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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              I used to run servers a decade ago and open was fine. Never had a random join. Crazy to think bots are trying random IPs now, probably would whitelist in that case

          • Saik0
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            You assume that those links would work. Kids machines have DNS whitelists.

            I’m not worried.

      • Saik0
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        https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

        The biggest issue is that the video stream endpoint is not auth’d. Meaning that if someone guesses the MD5 hash for a file in your library it will play. Sounds at first glance like it’s unlikely to matter. Except that MD5 is generated based on the file’s filepath. So if you use standard naming conventions on paths that are common (/movies/Big Bucks Bunny(2008)/Big Bucks Bunny.mkv for example being simple and easy), eg defaults for a docker container using *arr suites. Then it’s possible for a precompiled hash list to check for file against your server.

        So now add a company like Sony, they can generate all their library as a hash list, hit your server with millions of requests over the course of a couple of hours and map out how much of their content you have on your server. If any of it has never had a physical release (since you’re allowed to backup your own content) you’re completely fucked, and now will have to prove in court that you own ALL the content. And possibly… since it’s open endpoint, it could be argued that you’re even distributing openly (though unlikely argument… but do you really want to chance that?).

        Ultimately if your setup is “Standard” you’re asking for a lawsuit.

        Answers to “fix” this:

        Map your paths in weird folders. instead of /movies/ add in a folder like a GUID, so /eH4i67ZwByjLao3z7nHWKdS5ogysm68x/movies/. Make sure this occurs INSIDE your docker container if you’re using docker. Will break any precompiled hashes… though possible to hit a collision and still be “found”.

        Setup fail2ban or other brute force blocking technology on your reverse proxy.

        Use a private network setup… whether VPN, SDN, whatever… tailscale, zerotier, etc… (This will break TVs that don’t have vpn capabilities)

        Add another auth in front of Jellyfin. (This breaks ALL Jellyfin apps)

        The real answer would be the developers closing the unauth endpoints… But it’s been an issue for over 4 years now… They’re not going to fix it anytime soon as they don’t want to “break compatibility”, which is a pretty dumb excuse IMO.

        There’s another issue where you shouldn’t give accounts to people you don’t trust as one user can attack another user AFTER login. So make sure you trust everyone you let have access… they can screw with your profile and do stuff you might not expect.

          • Saik0
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            The endpoint issue exists in all builds. It would just have a different path in windows because paths in windows start with drive letter.

  • Twitches
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    112 months ago

    What happens of you hit skip. Does it not let you play the disk?

    • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      It let’s you continue no problem.

      Just like most modern video games these days that have the second agreement after the EULA. They make it seem necessary, knowing 99% of people will see all of the words and just skip to the bottom and hit “accept.”

      Still gross, but not really the problem that people here seem to think it is.