transformers 2 dvd not playing

blahdan · 12-05-2009, 07:31 PM

sooo i just borrowed transformers 2 from a friend and tried to play it in my computer. its a legit copy but keeps saying 'copy protection signal detected, playback stopped'. is it because my dvd drive is also a dvd writer?

all i want to do is watch a fucking movie without hollywood thinking im a god damn criminal. might as well try to find it online...

blahdan · 12-05-2009, 07:40 PM

nvm

it was because i had my laptop hooked up to my tv. fuck hollywood

Shang · 12-05-2009, 07:53 PM

lol that's ridiculous, they're getting too overprotective imo.

Hardly any "copy protection" actually stops pirates that want to pirate that stuff, it just hinders people that actually just want to buy and watch it legit, very few anti-pirate or copy protection mechanisms work effectively and without hindering honest customers. :<

**eclyps** · 12-05-2009, 07:59 PM

wat...

you can't use a computer as a dvd player anymore if it's hooked up via HDMI? That's a damn shame if that's what the new movies are doing, considering I don't have a DVD player hooked up to every TV of my house. If I wanna watch a DVD in my bedroom or the family room I'll just pop it in my laptop and connect it to the big screen.

blahdan · 12-05-2009, 10:13 PM

i had it hooked up with an rgb cable, not an hdmi cable. but still what would be the difference

**eclyps** · 12-05-2009, 10:16 PM

thats strange...

Are you sure that was the problem? I know a lot of movies or software won't run if they detect any virtual drives or protection removal programs (like AnyDVD) running.

blahdan · 12-05-2009, 10:29 PM

unless my school loaded those kinds of programs on my computer i dont have anything like that, just the program to play the dvd. its intervideo winDVD. plus as soon as i unplugged it from the tv and restarted the dvd it worked fine. only thing i changed was unplugging tv

Mr. Bushido · 12-06-2009, 11:42 AM

Maybe they did it because they wanted to spare you how bad Transformers 2 is?

Jackal · 12-10-2009, 01:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Bushido

Maybe they did it because they wanted to spare you how bad Transformers 2 is?

i second this xD

Terr0r · 12-10-2009, 07:41 AM

i liked transformers 2

**elemental00** · 12-10-2009, 08:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blahdan

i had it hooked up with an rgb cable, not an hdmi cable. but still what would be the difference

the difference is that rgb isnt hdcp compliant.. only hdmi is, so try and play it through rgb..it thinks you could be ripping the movie, so it stonewalls you

Fluid Vitis · 12-13-2009, 10:42 AM

Sounds to me like the forces of reality and justice decided to give you a break.