@thatbrickster @mangeurdenuage It's not required at all, as there's free software that allows you to watch bluray's in freedom.

You just need libbluray, libaacs and libbdplus from VideoLAN; https://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html

You then need some keys and tables from https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=176924

`git clone https://github.com/meganz/MEGAcmd` should allow you to download files from mega without running proprietary software.

I strongly suggest compiling libbdplus and libbluray without Java support, so you don't run the proprietary software in bluray menus or the digital handcuff VM software accidentally - menus really aren't needed and libbdplus can use precomputed tables no problem.

Of course, I suggest compiling ffmpeg with libbluray support and then extracting any bluray's into a .mkv file, for handcuff free playback.

mpv and VLC also have libbluray support.


People shill proprietary software that can decrypt bluray's, but those are just copyright infringing versions of libbluray+libaacs+libbdplus.