[Hellmark]

Originally Posted by Graham44

I watch DVD's fine on my Linux computers (Both Linux Mint and Bodhi Linux)?

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Ripping DVD or Blu-Ray is very easy and the software is also very easy to get.

Ripping 4K Blu-Ray is harder as you need a a drive that has a patched firmware available. However, you can use a Blu-Ray player to read the 4K discs.You don't need an expensive 4K Blu-Ray player.

This. I've been slowly ripping my collection, because I am tired of the movies I want to watch not being on streaming when I want to watch it. DVD's have been dog simple for years, blurays aren't really any more difficult, but 4k UHDs are definitely a pain at times. I was lucky enough to snag my drive right before they patched things from the factory to block libredrive.

Originally Posted by Ebookus

I would think 26th February during office hours in Seattle

This is my guess. I wouldn't see this being of a level to require an after hours prod deploy. Plus some changes may take time to roll out as it might need processes to go through.

Originally Posted by Graham44

I honestly don't know about that. Although logic would say there would be no reason to stop someone playing a dvd on a computer (running Linux or otherwise), but as I say I have no idea behind the technicalities, I just know I can (with OOTB Mint and Bodhi)

In order to read the data to play it you need to be able to decrypt it, and if you can decrypt it there's nothing to prevent you from removing the DRM entirely. Having that be open source means that anyone can take that code and do just that, so some distros are a bit weary to allow it since some companies have been a bit dickish about such things in the past.