New bluray drive - key revoked. Is there anything I can do?
I bought a usb bluray drive to rip all my legally purchased blurays into my harddrive. Everything was going fine at first, except Robin Hood (Men in tights) only played with serious artefacts for some reason and The Dark Knight Rises wouldn't play at all. I just kept going with the rest of my movies. Then I put in Gravity and now none of my other blurays will play - I get the message "Host key revoked". I tried one of the blurays that used to play (300) and it still played. So I take it the Gravity bluray somehow revoked some key on my drive. Is there anything I can do? Is the drive useless now? Is there hope that I can update the key database at some point and if yes, how often does that happen?
Posted Jul 15, 2014, 6:14 AM UTC
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From what I know (please correct if I'm wrong), the DRM software for BluRays is included on every disk. The drive is updating its firmware with it on disk insertion. The encryption keys are leaked until DRM version 28, but the newest disks delivers version 31 or 32.
So it is bad luck. If you insert such a disk, you need to wait until the DRM version 31/32 keys are leaked. Nobody knows when this will happen.
Sadely there is no method to check the DRM version before inserting the disk.
holy shit this is a thing? I'll never buy a blu-ray
Yeah really, makes me regret buying the drive instead of just downloading everything.
I always download instead of copying. I mean half the work is already done for you that way. Plus, no headaches.
I'm downloading Non-Stop 2014 BDRip 1080p.mkv right now. A very large file at 10.46GB(40 min download). But the quality will be A+++. I have no problem with storage space. I can shrink the file if needed. Using HandBrake or BDRebuilder.
Well torrenting is a bit risky in my country, so I have to rely on other, less convenient methods. And 10GB is what my rips came out to be as well, that's not the issue. I just hate the fact that I'm forced to enter a legal grey zone when I'm willing to pay for this, but if they screw over a legit customer just because they're using Linux, so be it.
It amazes me that in trying to prevent piracy with DRM that they are actually promoting it and making it more common.
I was in the same situation so I made backup copies with makemkv (there is a gratis timelimited version for linux).
Having high resolution video is nice and with the filesize discs might be more practical than downloads, but I also have decided to not buy blurays again.
I can't get MakeMKV to work. It always says "Key exchanged failed", even before this happened. Handbrake worked right away though.
tl;dr: fuck you, consumers.
Thanks, bad news but great reply.
Well how often does this typically happen? Has it happened more than once?
I don't know. Maybe you find some infos googling for AACS leaked host key and linux.
Oh another question: Do you think it would work if I used the drive with Windows?
I'd expect it, but not sure. Never tried.
god that's awfull.
TIL: blueray is actually worse then even the nuts seemed to say it was.