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Date:      Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:12:56 +0200
From:      Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Playing Blu-Ray Discs
Message-ID:  <20160817121256.4dec511a2adc6d4848a888c2@yahoo.es>
In-Reply-To: <a833f9eb-ab7f-a5e7-a46e-ddd4cbf42849@bananmonarki.se>
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 11:42:45 +0200
Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> wrote:

> On 2016-08-17 10:51, Eduardo Morras via freebsd-questions wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 19:10:40 +0200
> > Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2016-08-16 13:33, Jonathan Moore wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I was wondering how would one play Blu-Ray discs on FreeBSD 10.3
> >>> or is this only in 11.0?
> >>>
> >> That's not going to happen in a foreseeable future i.e never.
> >>
> >> HDCP is the problem, and i do not think the freebsd community has
> >> cracked that yet.
> > It's forbidden to publish any work about craking HDCP.
> No, it is not forbidden to publish any crack for HDCP.
> 
> http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Blu-ray-HDMI-HDCP-Digilent-FPGA,14105.html

You're semi-right, it's in USA and associates under DMCA where you can be sued, but EU and others not because on EU, it's "fair use" and allows competence be compatible. Again, no global answer.

https://www.wired.com/2010/09/intel-threatens-consumers/
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/warner-bros-sues-hd-fury-over-boxes-that-can-copy-4k-video/

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Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es>



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