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As in title, i'm just wondering whether it is possible to rip movie from cinema if one has got unsupervised access to cinema's hardware. Maybe someone did that? I'm not talking about caming, i'm talking about making a digital copy of premiere material.

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[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The movie at a cinema isn't a regular mp4 file, it's a massive 100-300gb proprietary file that needs a valid license key to even be played back during a specific time period. Good luck decrypting the file or getting the company that issues the keys to the cinemas to give you a key because you're not getting it to play early. Iirc somehow the Korean rip of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie was leaked early and something similar happened with the My Little Pony movie, but those fan bases are incredibly autistic and will find a way.

[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

so what you're saying is that we must infiltrate the drm company and plant a secret backdoor that can be used to bypass the activation key

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

probably easier to mess with the projector so it records a local file that is a copy of what is being projected, which would already been decrypted. With this if you can infiltrate the DRM company you only need the schematics of the projector, not an active malware to steal new keys.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Not nowadays with the DRM they use. Back in the actual-film days it was doable, and called a telecine

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Last time I looked at the topic (several years ago in a now deleted reddit post); someone had posted info on the projector system.

The media is delivered on a battery backed up rack-mount pc with proprietary connectors and a dozen anti-tamper switches in the case. If it detects meddling; it wipes itself. You're not likely to grab a copy from there.

As the other commenter mentioned; the projector and media are heavily protected with DRM, encrypting the stream all the way up to the projector itself. You can pull an audio feed off the sound board; but you're stuck with a camera for video.