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Looks like DRM prevented to watch movies in many theaters yesterday (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When we went to our seats, the wait staff let us know that despite the fact that the previews were playing, we wouldn’t know until the movie actually started whether we could see the film or not. If it didn’t work, the screen would just turn black. Luckily, the film went through without a hitch.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Curious how I’m supposed to pirate the theater experience.

This doesn’t really seem like a problem that piracy can solve.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The theater just projects pirated copies rather than DRM copies

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I would laugh so hard if they downloaded a version with chinese subs because they are not good enough to find better versions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

You can watch pirated movies in a virtual theatre in VR. It's quite impressive really.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Reminds me of how many times outages to corporate software has been caused by some bullshit with the licensing management.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Screw the movie theatres anyway.. Here in Australia, there are two big ones (Hoyts and Village), and both screw patrons by doing things like charging patrons extra money for booking online.

In fact, they ruined every joke in the simpsons movie for me (except one) by allowing ads to use clips from the movie. By 45mins of ads, every joke was ruined.

I really wish the big theatres here would f off, and get replaced entirely by small ones. I don't pay for 40mins of sh***y coca cola ads.

I no longer go at all. It's not a good experience, and its not even a good place to take a date

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (6 children)

In my place they name it convenience fee.

For pete's sake movie goers book online and help your fuxxing operations ourselves, you should be paying us or giving us discount not charging extra.

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