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Looks like DRM prevented to watch movies in many theaters yesterday (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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When we went to our seats, the wait staff let us know that despite the fact that the previews were playing, we wouldn’t know until the movie actually started whether we could see the film or not. If it didn’t work, the screen would just turn black. Luckily, the film went through without a hitch.

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[-] ByroTriz@lemmy.ml 231 points 2 years ago

The marvels of intellectual property

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 175 points 2 years ago

Remember when they started infecting people's computers with rootkits?

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 75 points 2 years ago

I've avoided Sony products as best I can since then. I'm probably not aware of the full suite of Sony-owned brands and companies, but rootkit made it so I haven't had a piece of Sony branded merchandise in almost 20 years.

[-] explodicle@local106.com 24 points 2 years ago

Same here! It's absolutely bonkers to me that everyone was just OK with that.

[-] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

can younplease explain to me what happened. I haven't heard about this one

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

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

[-] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

thanks

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

My wf-xm4 earphones have battery problems and sony won't do any about it. it's a known problem, so I went out and got a sony es receiver, that has a known hissing problem and they won't do anything about it. Maybe ill learn someday.

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Oh fuck I’d forgotten about that.

I knew I hated Sony, but I’d totally forgotten about that.

[-] JDubbleu@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hilariously enough, even at the theater, you'd get a better experience pirating the movie. Y'know, cause you'd ACTUALLY GET TO WATCH THE MOVIE AT ALL. Proving yet again piracy is a service problem.