Dec 26, 2017, 16:37 pm
(This post was last modified: Dec 26, 2017, 22:49 pm by RodneyYouPlonker. Edited 1 time in total.)
I hear the latest news that came a few days ago from TorrentFreak, it was said that to combat the piracy of movies in 4K quality the companies that produce the drives are now planning on targetting the firmware for the latest 4K drives for PC and Mac by patching out security holes in the firmware so it means it will be impossible to actually rip a 4K movie.
They said that because 4K copies and actually ripping one is like the 'Holy Grail' of ripping movies, that 4K is looking like is going to cause a lot of problems. They are trying their best at the moment to try and sell to as many people as possible making maximum money out of them. I know a few people who are already into buying 4K movies and they have already paid out a fortune.
These security holes they are planning on using they will simply target the firmware for the drives in a way that means most people will want to update firmware for the latest disc compatibility but also at the same time you are making it impossible then to read and copy a 4K disc which is what they are wanting really. Like a lot of these latest 4K players they use firmware updates now to try and stop people watching copies like the Cinavia thing by making the firmware so it detects and stops you watching what you want.
The only way I see it is that some clever programmer out there who endorses copyright infringement is going to have to somehow reprogram the firmware updates for these drives. They are going to have to release like Jailbreaking firmware a bit like jailbreaking your ipod and they are going to have to get people to update their drives with these patches so that they can make the drives work again with the ripping programs. If this doesn't happen then there's not going to be any 4K ripping going on. The whole thing is going to be a bit of a mess really like having to rewrite all the firmwares for different 4K drives for your PC and Mac and having to release them unofficially so they can change what the companies are trying to do to prevent piracy. Also not forgetting this will totally void your warranties if the drive should fail.
Not much I don't think is happening yet, I'm not sure about whether there are 4K drives now in the USA maybe they are already on sale I haven't bothered to look. I know they came out in Japan first as things always do it's early days yet I really don't know how people are going to go about copying and ripping movies in the future. If not then it could have serious consequences on sites like Pirate Bay where people won't be able to rip because of these firmware patches. Maybe they might find ways around it I'm not sure. I don't know that much about it at the moment but things are going to have to change soon because HD can't carry on forever. There's going to come a day when Piracy is going to have to step up the ladder a bit and also Internet connections are going to have to speed up and torrent files are going to have to be much larger to handle all the extra information for high quality video. Obviously then higher you go in quality the more pixels there are and the better the colours, the higher the video rates. You can't just simply process a file that's about 2 gigabytes in size for that kind of level, if you do you simply have no idea what you're doing. In the future if 4K does go viral and gets pirated then there's going to be much more to download than currently. I see so many files around these days all such small things but to be honest they just don't cut it in quality. Only if you process files that are higher spec can you get the better results.
They said that because 4K copies and actually ripping one is like the 'Holy Grail' of ripping movies, that 4K is looking like is going to cause a lot of problems. They are trying their best at the moment to try and sell to as many people as possible making maximum money out of them. I know a few people who are already into buying 4K movies and they have already paid out a fortune.
These security holes they are planning on using they will simply target the firmware for the drives in a way that means most people will want to update firmware for the latest disc compatibility but also at the same time you are making it impossible then to read and copy a 4K disc which is what they are wanting really. Like a lot of these latest 4K players they use firmware updates now to try and stop people watching copies like the Cinavia thing by making the firmware so it detects and stops you watching what you want.
The only way I see it is that some clever programmer out there who endorses copyright infringement is going to have to somehow reprogram the firmware updates for these drives. They are going to have to release like Jailbreaking firmware a bit like jailbreaking your ipod and they are going to have to get people to update their drives with these patches so that they can make the drives work again with the ripping programs. If this doesn't happen then there's not going to be any 4K ripping going on. The whole thing is going to be a bit of a mess really like having to rewrite all the firmwares for different 4K drives for your PC and Mac and having to release them unofficially so they can change what the companies are trying to do to prevent piracy. Also not forgetting this will totally void your warranties if the drive should fail.
Not much I don't think is happening yet, I'm not sure about whether there are 4K drives now in the USA maybe they are already on sale I haven't bothered to look. I know they came out in Japan first as things always do it's early days yet I really don't know how people are going to go about copying and ripping movies in the future. If not then it could have serious consequences on sites like Pirate Bay where people won't be able to rip because of these firmware patches. Maybe they might find ways around it I'm not sure. I don't know that much about it at the moment but things are going to have to change soon because HD can't carry on forever. There's going to come a day when Piracy is going to have to step up the ladder a bit and also Internet connections are going to have to speed up and torrent files are going to have to be much larger to handle all the extra information for high quality video. Obviously then higher you go in quality the more pixels there are and the better the colours, the higher the video rates. You can't just simply process a file that's about 2 gigabytes in size for that kind of level, if you do you simply have no idea what you're doing. In the future if 4K does go viral and gets pirated then there's going to be much more to download than currently. I see so many files around these days all such small things but to be honest they just don't cut it in quality. Only if you process files that are higher spec can you get the better results.
