> I OWN these discs and no licensing agreements between corporations can deprive me of watching or listening to what I paid for.
Are you sure?
> The approach of AACS provisions each individual player with a unique set of decryption keys which are used in a broadcast encryption scheme. This approach allows licensors to "revoke" individual players, or more specifically, the decryption keys associated with the player.
For the time being, I'm sure. I don't have to use proprietary connected players that can change behavior when reconfigured by vendor against my will.
Until user-friendly hardware projects like frame.work (edit: "open hardware" may be a more suiting phrase), and software projects like VLC exist and are not de-legalized, my point stands.
You're right. But fully lawfully - I can use non-connected hardware like old dedicated players (my Yamaha Blu-Ray player has no issues with BD discs from at least 2 regions) or PlayStation3 that I no longer need connected to LAN. And hey - unlike its successors - PS3 can play audio CDs, too!
Since these media formats are seemingly being phased-out, using older hardware for "legacy" media seems reasonable.
As for audio, I am lawfully allowed to rip CDs, so open hardware and open-source decoders (like FLAC) will work well when Apple starts doing some shitfuckery around my AIFF rips.
Are you sure?
> The approach of AACS provisions each individual player with a unique set of decryption keys which are used in a broadcast encryption scheme. This approach allows licensors to "revoke" individual players, or more specifically, the decryption keys associated with the player.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Access_Content_System