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

submitted 10 months ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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From the article:

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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[-] june@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Curious how I’m supposed to pirate the theater experience.

This doesn’t really seem like a problem that piracy can solve.

[-] C126@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

The theater just projects pirated copies rather than DRM copies

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago

I would laugh so hard if they downloaded a version with chinese subs because they are not good enough to find better versions.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

You can watch pirated movies in a virtual theatre in VR. It's quite impressive really.

[-] JCreazy@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

Someone working in a movie theater could just take the file and send it to other movie theaters and then they can play the movie whenever they want without paying the distributor. They could also just upload it onto the internet so anyone can watch it. It's essentially to keep theater operators honest.