What people say when they encounter Cinavia and feel restricted

[Hawk]

I thought I share this with slysoft community about cinavia

More and more people are discovering how the Cinavia Blu-ray copy protection prevents them from playing their Blu-ray backups. Those who stumble upon the Cinavia messages are outing themselves on Twitter and they aren’t exactly using nice words. Below you can find a picture of some tweets from the last couple of days. We’ve been monitoring the Cinavia keyword on Twitter the last couple months to to bring our Cinavia article to the attention of people that encounter Cinavia, hoping they can learn something from it. Recently we’ve seen an increase in the amount of Tweets about Cinavia, the image shows only Cinavia swearing in English, in other languages there are similar messages.

While the Cinavia developers and the movie studios might be happy to read these Tweets, it underlines an important issue. While some of the Tweeters might have illegally downloaded a movie from the internet, it’s also possible they’ve created a backup of their Blu-ray movie and found out after 20 minutes the audio was muted. This means that people who have bought a physical item, have lost the control over something they think they own. While the content industry will tell you that you’ve licensed their content, that doesn’t mean it should only be playable from a relatively expensive disc.
The solution to this issue is becoming available to more and people in the form of movie streaming for a decent price. However there are still lots of countries where internet speeds are too slow to stream in decent quality. Also new technology like Ultra HD / 4K will require even faster connections and in some countries these services are simply not available yet. That means (optical) discs continue to be carriers for movies and it’s important that people are aware of ways the movie industry limits something they own, or think they own. Cinavia is a copy protection for Blu-ray that is mandatory on Blu-ray players since 2012. The protection is based on a watermark that is embedded in the audio stream of a Blu-ray movie. Blu-ray players, both hardware and software contain a Cinavia detector that checks for a valid watermark. If not found because e.g. someone tries to playback a backup of a movie, the audio is muted after 20 minutes and a Cinavia message will appear. Recent versions of the protection might also prompt the user to purchase a legitimate version online.

Source:http://www.myce.com/news/what-people-say-when-they-encounter-cinavia-and-feel-restricted-69256/​

 

[Jeff53404]

It's worth adding other workarounds such as the use of media players for your backup or playing your backup via a Roku's usb connection.

 

[Recycle]

Or finding a BD/DVD player that is still around prior to the 2012 switch where the firmware included the Cinavia updates to their firmware to block any forms of playing the backup BD infected media. That is what I did bought a used BD player LG manufactured in 2011 to bypass all this infected media should I play my backup copy of BD media. It doesn't have the ethernet or wifi options but nevertheless plays BD and DVD/CD and the likes without much problem.

 

[fast eddie]

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[whatever_gong82]

I use JRiver's Media Center so that I can play my Cinavia backups without any problem.

However, I've only bought ONE Cinavia infected disc so far (A blu-ray one- Think Like A Man) and I'll only pay for these blu-ray/DVDs that have Cinvia if I can play them on something like what I use, or use AnyDVD HD to prevent Cinavia from starting up in the first place.

 

[Pelvis Popcan]

To me, what is really funny is "audiophile" components that sell from thousands, to tens of thousands, to even hundreds of thousands of dollars. DAC's, separate amps, speakers, even speaker cables that sell for thousands of dollars, all in the name of squeezing that tiny little bit of extra perfection out of digital audio recordings.

And here is Cinavia, that is purposely introducing distortions and even wow and flutter back into the mix. That $10,000 DAC you bought for bit for bit perfection? Cinavia craps all over it.