If it is allowing you to connect to servers which require premium accounts it is a form of hacking since you are bypassing access control on a server you don’t own.

Even though like 90% of Minecraft server owners are pieces of shit and about 70% of those are P2W servers doing it for money it’s still not a good idea.

I think a big problem is that the majority of their plugin system is based on Python and when they switched from python 2.7 to python 3 they both fractured and largely in my opinion ruined the ecosystem. And maybe they did do that because people were using it for piracy. I said back then that it would cause fracturing and fallout, but people just said I was stupid.

Yet the community never really did recover from that

It really sucks sinc Kodi and LibreElec is probably the only UI out there for Linux devices for a TV type environment with remote/arrow key navigation. The only real other one out there is Gamescope/Steam but that’s more of a Gaming focused one.

They just don’t have any DRM on the client, but to answer your question in the past people didn’t call it piracy, they called it not using Minecraft with a premium account.

The only reason we do now is because Mojang and Microsoft removed the ability to play the demo mode from the official launcher (which is a piece of garbage by the way) and told people they needed to pay to play Minecraft. Unfortunately a lot of people are neoliberals and they take that advice to heart and consider it wrong to violate those wishes.

But I do agree with you that they shouldn’t I only do it with the display name of my community !minecraft4free@lemmy.dbzer0.com because it largely keeps the whiny neolibs who would whine about piracy away from the community.

I heard that they’re probably going to be using the Google Play store and probably similar modules to play protect to enforce this. So the question becomes will disabling the Google Play store bypass this? It outright kills play protect dialogue as well as its app disabling capability as a whole since play protect is part of Google Play store.

Have you tried using Tor yet, also potentially Mullvad Browser with a VPN since Mullvad’s Browser has similar anti-fingerprinting and anti-tracking capabilities but for use outside the Tor Network.

Also there is a lot of disinformation surrounding hardware based bans on Websites, typically pushed as fearmongering by Reddit’s moderators. Websites on modern secure browsers can’t read your hardware identifiers because modern secure web browsers are Sandboxed. Of course this doesn’t apply to Reddit’s mobile app so don’t use that ever really.

Also you need to use a different email since they check for matching emails.

Corporations want people to act like their EULAs are written in blood when they’re just ramblings of an entitled child on the playground. What are you going to do? Ban them again?

This is probably one of the best ones out there, it’s based on a fork of Prism which has authlib support and FTB modpack support, and also has the Microsoft account DRM removed so you can use it without a valid Microsoft account.

Netflix’s short stint with FMV / chooe-your-own adventure games highlights a perfect case of difficult preservation - all the runtimes are closed source apps, all the data is streamed from a server, and all the logic is held on the server.

Add to that the fact that a lot of these types of non-standard content have low engagement and interest. Which is what ultimately makes preservation and piracy harder. If you had a lot of interest it would be difficult but not impossible to recreate some of the interactive elements around them, and extract/decrypt the video content. But without interest it’s more difficult. Also ironically the lack of interest is why these things are being sunsetted in the first place. It’s kind of a perfect storm in that they are hard to preserve and there is also low interest in preserving them as well.

And if war breaks out and many countries are crippled (think post-nuclear apocalypse) that’ll help that case too. Not saying it will happen but it could.

Did you actually read what I said or did you assume I’d say something specific and then just respond to that without reading…

Never say never. Especially since we’re only in the beginning of the AI era, AI de-compilation is starting to become feasible, AI cracking probably will too.

I’m not really sure if they’re they’re the biggest userbase of Bluray movies. I know lots of them do but also many don’t, especially with the promotion of Digital-Only Game Systems and Also Streaming services. Most people I know who buy and use Blurays just have a basic Bluray player and aren’t really gamers.

I don’t think it’s a good metric since most people using Blurays don’t have their players connected to the Internet anyway. Connecting Bluray players online is a very niche use-case. It might be more popular if they had built-in Streaming Apps or NAS playback but many don’t and are just Bluray players.

Do the apps still work? The biggest issues I’ve found with Bluray players like that is that the Streaming Apps on them tend to become Obsolete and broken fairly quickly.

They don’t really, out of all the complaints I’ve heard people make about Bluray players (Disc Recognition, Region Locking) I’ve never heard them complain that it needed to be connected to the internet. It’s an optional feature, not a requirement.

They can, many have Ethernet ports and even Wifi in some cases but there’s no practical reason to do so unless they have streaming features you want to use but most don’t, and the ones that do often aren’t updated so you’ll find the Streaming Apps on them usually don’t work anymore.

Yeah it seems really strange. I know some Bluray players support Internet connectivity but unless they’re also a Streaming box I don’t see why people would connect them to the internet. Really it seems like the majority of people don’t so not sure how useful this feature is.

HDCP is easy to bypass. Almost laughable really, there are tons of “Splitters” and Strippers on the market. I’ve also seem a few totally legal capture cards that can read it directly.

I think that 4K77, 4K80, and 4K83 are the best way of watching the original trilogy. As for the order I think that’s really up to you if you prefer the release order, or chronological order, or something else.

Maybe that’s why many PCs these days don’t have them, and also why they don’t have network kill-switches anymore. People just got confused and thought something was broken.