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

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The theater just projects pirated copies rather than DRM copies

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Except people can do those things anyway so the DRM is all just creating problems for the honest ones.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yes I'm aware but if the DRM wasn't there it would certainly be easier

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The theater pirates the experience for you!