That's already been the case for years, and is why DoH was invented in the first place.

Chromecasts hardcode DNS to 8.8.8.8, so people would redirect that traffic to their PiHole for adblocking.

To "fix" that, Google introduced DoH, which is why adblocking on chromecasts is significantly harder nowadays.

> Where on earth did you get that idea from?

Well, countless court rulings in Europe?

e.g., https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/05/finland-court-br...

That's why you can play or a rip a DVD with common open-source software (e.g., VLC) without requiring any special piracy tools.

See https://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html for details.

> libdvdcss is a library that can find and guess keys from a DVD in order to decrypt it.

> This method is authorized by a French law decision CE 10e et 9e sous­sect., 16 juillet 2008, n° 301843 on interoperability.

> https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/ceta/id/CETATEXT000019216315/

Btw, that - as well as software patents - is why the official binaries of VLC and ffmpeg are illegal to have or use in the US.

DVD encryption is not considered DRM or encryption in the EU, as it is too weak to provide any meaningful protections.

If ripping DVDs is not allowed in the US, then the video should be region locked (just like Pride Month content us blocked in certain arabic countries), but not removed.

I'm not sure why you're telling him this — he's already on floatplane and the video is available there already

https://www.floatplane.com/channel/JeffGeerling/

I usually try to write comments with proper notation and proper example values, but if — like in this instance — I'm interrupted IRL and lose my draft, I'll focus on getting my idea across at all rather than writing the perfect comment. Even if that leads to excessive abbreviations, slightly off example values, inconsistency between you/I/passive voice or past/present/future tense.

In this case the comment you see is the third attempt, ultimately written on a phone (urgh), but I hope the idea came across nonetheless.