UHD Blu-ray Disc Authentication Poll

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Originally Posted by Anthony P

The idea is simple but based on several insane assumptions.
Let's start with a simple example.

Look at the threads here. Some people stated that they got from some BB retail locations the UHD BDs before the official release date. If these disks could be pirated (not sure what real DRM differences exist between 1.0 and 2.0) the people that got them early could have made copies available on torrent sites before the official release date. Now we are talking "purchases", but if we assume a dishonest employee the retail location got it before they were put on the shelves and the distribution center even earlier and the replicator finished replicating them even earlier.

If the title key is server based and the server does not allow the key to be DL early the disk you buy is useless until release date, and you can't see the film until that date and so it can't be made available before that date on torrent sites (granted the last statement is questionable but not necessarily insane). Where it becomes insane is the assumption that there are people out there that are checking daily the torrent sites(is X available for free DL yet?) until release day eve and if not on release date they will run out to buy the title on the disk.

It does not check the player this is not like BD+ (i.e. not hacked, not plugged into a PVR.....), what it does is before allowing the title key to be DL it can check some simple criteria (i.e. release day is 2/23/2016 it is 2/21/2016 don't DL the key, the guy is going through a VPN/Proxy don't DL the key, the guy's ISP is saying he is in Canada this is a UK release don't DL the key....)

Ah, thanks, I think I get it, but, really, I know this is shaky ground but most disc based piracy as I see it comes after release date anyway. As I thought we'd established, most pre-release date piracy comes nowadays from Web Downloads from streaming on demand sites which coincide with the cinema release more and more often.