Indian hackers removing DVD player from Windows computers

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According to a Reddit, the street shitter running Microsoft has mandated that 'Windows Defender' 'antivirus' will remove the 'DeCSS' software that was developed to remove 'CSS' shyster 'digital rights management' from DVD movies several decades ago.

This includes not just an old compiled executable, which under some coincidence could conceivably have been included in some malware (harvesting random DVDs????????), but also the source of the program, whether uncompressed or in the original ZIP archive.

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@AnOminous @lemmiwinks

 

[seri0us]

DVD movies several decades ago

DVD only came out in 1996 wtf

 

[XYZpdq]

According to a Reddit, the street shitter running Microsoft has mandated that 'Windows Defender' 'antivirus' will remove the 'DeCSS' software that was developed to remove 'CSS' shyster 'digital rights management' from DVD movies several decades ago.

This includes not just an old compiled executable, which under some coincidence could conceivably have been included in some malware (harvesting random DVDs????????), but also the source of the program, whether uncompressed or in the original ZIP archive.

r/sysadmin - Windows Defender July Update - Will delete legitimate file from famous copyright case (DeCSS)

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@AnOminous @lemmiwinks

does this go on to affect other shit like DVD Decrypter?
who the fuck has even thought about the existence of DeCSS in fifteen years?

 

[DeadwastePrime]

DVD only came out in 1996 wtf

mfw that actually is several decades ago

 

[Walrus and Carpenter]

mfw that actually is several decades ago

Is two and a half a synonym for several? Seems like it is between a couple and a few.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Is two and a half a synonym for several? Seems like it is between a couple and a few.

close enough

 

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DVD only came out in 1996 wtf

That rounds to several decades, not two

does this go on to affect other shit like DVD Decrypter?
who the fuck has even thought about the existence of DeCSS in fifteen years?

Just wait..

 

[XYZpdq]

this is still confusing for me
I could understand THEM! finding a flimsy reason to stop DeCSS when the big shitstorm around DeCSS was a thing, back in the Bush 2 administration
If there was really some big death thing buried in DeCSS for real why the fuck now rather than when it was decades ago and people gave a fuck about DeCSS?
Is there some aspect of DeCSS that could be applied to various other things?

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

What's the point if modern laptops don't even have holes for DVD'S?

 

[Tism the Return]

tfw Indians remove DVD player features but can't remove shit from the streets

 

[murdered meat bag]

does this go on to affect other shit like DVD Decrypter?
who the fuck has even thought about the existence of DeCSS in fifteen years?

does this effect bluray and bluray decrypters?

 

[HumanHive]

I’m confused as to what this means. Are DVD files being deleted, are DVDs no longer able to be played, or is an old anti-DRM program being deleted?
Forgive the ignorance.

 

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I’m confused as to what this means. Are DVD files being deleted, are DVDs no longer able to be played, or is an old anti-DRM program being deleted?
Forgive the ignorance.

An old anti-DRM program, that was also the subject of an infamous free speech case.

 

[AmpleApricots]

"What's a DVD?"
- some androgynous child

 

[Slav Power]

Might as well disable my AV anyway tbh.

 

[Dark Master]

I know Wangblows 11 is trying to lock down a lot of features. I wonder if this is the start of it. "No, cannot use physical media anymore. You must only use digital and always be online."

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

There's apparently some further feature creep where they are dipping their toes into blocking some keygens and cracks. On the flipside of that I've had Windows Defender block a couple of things from the demoscene, maybe because Fairlight's packer is similar to Farilight the piracy groups packer. This is not tin-foil hat spergery but they're already rifling through peoples OneDrives and it seems like the would one day want to extend that to the desktop or at the bare minimum the future virtual desktop. Then the desktop, for feature parity!

 

[Kosher Dill]

If Windows Defender has gone rogue, is there any workaround at all or do you just have to quarantine Windows machines and only give them read-only access to any network resources?

 

[HumanHive]

There's apparently some further feature creep where they are dipping their toes into blocking some keygens and cracks. On the flipside of that I've had Windows Defender block a couple of things from the demoscene, maybe because Fairlight's packer is similar to Farilight the piracy groups packer. This is not tin-foil hat spergery but they're already rifling through peoples OneDrives and it seems like the would one day want to extend that to the desktop or at the bare minimum the future virtual desktop. Then the desktop, for feature parity!

I hate this “your computer doesn’t belong to you” future we’re headed towards, but the only hope we have is there will one day be countermeasures to M$’s bullshit.
It really is just the first hurdle you have to go over, so any pirate or hacker will always find a way to counter Windows Defender (more like jailer tbh) eventually,

 

[totallyrandomusername]

People actually use Windows Defender?

I hate this “your computer doesn’t belong to you” future we’re headed towards, but the only hope we have is there will one day be countermeasures to M$’s bullshit.
It really is just the first hurdle you have to go over, so any pirate or hacker will always find a way to counter Windows Defender (more like jailer tbh) eventually,

It gets ever worse for Windows 11. Unless you install Windows 11 Pro, you absolutely must have a Microsoft Account in order to login to your Windows 11 Home edition for the first time. Absolutely no exceptions.