UHD Blu-ray may be cracked

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UHD Blu-ray may be cracked

A “UHD Blu-ray copy” of Smurfs 2 has been uploaded to UltraHDclub, TorrentFreak reported.

According to TorrentFreak, pirated UHD content is hard to find online, due to large file sizes and copy protection on UHD media.
 
53Gb - Then the guy watches it on a 2011 LG HD 24" screen
 
If you can afford the hardware that does justice to 4K content, then you have no excuse for pirating it.
 
If you can afford the hardware that does justice to 4K content, then you have no excuse for pirating it.

Problem is still finding the content legally. The only place I can really get anything 4k is Netflix and YouTube. I cannot buy UHD blu-ray disks in SA, not even to mention the hardware to play it with. Showmax and all the other providers barely get 720p.

I would love to watch everything in 4k, its pretty on a 65 inch UHD TV, and I paid a lot for it too... Just that I'm stuck with the Netflix stuff and the 3 movies I got with the TV.

Edit: To add to that, even Netflix is crippled by licensing red tape, because we cannot get all the nice things the US gets.
 
Yet another thing to add, as long as you can watch it, play it back, have it display, the "encryption" is not unbreakable. It just becomes more difficult to do by brute force.

DVDs also at one point was "unbreakable" until a certain stakeholder in the technology managed to leak all their player keys on the internet (*cough* Sony *cough*).
Normal BluRay movies didn't last long either, and man was that bullcrap complex, with online connectivity being a prerequisite to allow "the revocation of decryption keys" and "updating keys" on the fly before you could watch a movie... Which they still do...

I got a legitimate copy of Cyberlink PowerDVD with my BluRay drive, which was awesome, until it stopped working due to some update.

They keep kicking a dead horse... Its easier to have it online, with all the DRM they can add, constantly evolving the platform to keep their content safe. No one wants to rip stuff off' Netflix, because you'd ask "WHY" so much effort and gain nothing, except the ability to watch it "offline" (which you cannot do with new Blurays anyway).
I am happy to pay for a streaming service, and if my connection and equipment support the high bandwidth stream for 4k then let me have it.

I'm not going to go and inconvenience myself with physically frail plastic mediums that need to be manually inserted into a lazer robot, just to update the firmware of it before I am allowed to watch the thing I bought to watch it with. F*** that...
 
Surely with VP9 and H.265 the file size should be a LOT smaller than that. I am guessing that is the uncompressed version they are uploading then.

Most 4k content is already encoded with H.265 10-bit, its the UHD BluRay standard. 4k is just that big. I watched a movie on Netflix the other day at 4k, my usage for that hour and a half was 28GB, and that is with their legendary compression thingys...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_HD_Blu-ray
 
Why would I want to watch that?

Most likely this particular copy of Smurfs 2 had some vulnerability or included something that it shouldn't have which allowed its contents to be decrypted. There are many examples of DVD and Blu-Ray encryption broken through particular films that allow one to hack at the decryption keys.
 
Most 4k content is already encoded with H.265 10-bit, its the UHD BluRay standard. 4k is just that big. I watched a movie on Netflix the other day at 4k, my usage for that hour and a half was 28GB, and that is with their legendary compression thingys...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_HD_Blu-ray

Doesn't sound right?

Netflix reckon 8GB per hour for UHD. I only have 100GB cap and I managed a (relative) ton of UHD content before hitting the cap. I think I did 10+hrs worth and all fine
 
Doesn't sound right?

Netflix reckon 8GB per hour for UHD. I only have 100GB cap and I managed a (relative) ton of UHD content before hitting the cap. I think I did 10+hrs worth and all fine

Netflix has Uber compression.
 
Doesn't sound right?

Netflix reckon 8GB per hour for UHD. I only have 100GB cap and I managed a (relative) ton of UHD content before hitting the cap. I think I did 10+hrs worth and all fine

Well streaming UHD and Bluray UHD are completely different beasts. Streaming will have much lower bitrates than disc based content.
 
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