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(On a technical note). In the case of dvd discs, I have noticed the set of css encryption keys are actually very specific to a particular disc manufacturing plant. For example, almost all dvd discs manufactured at Technicolor's giant manufacturing facility in Mexico, have been using the exact...

(On a tangential precedent). Fox/MGM titles used the BD+ drm on almost all of their bluray releases over October 2007 to Oct/Nov 2017. There is a definitive precedent of an older Fox bluray title with the BD+ drm with MKB9 encryption keys, which was repressed with an updated MKB66 encryption...

I would be somewhat surprised if this would be Warner's motivation for buying up MGM, unless the C-level suite at AT&T is run by a bunch of hardcore film archivists or historians.

What's unknown is how much of the old Fox manufactured bluray inventory is still left over for Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre. Over the past year or so, 4Kbluray versions of these four films were released which all included respective generic bluray copies. Probably an...

I don't have any issues with arguing by technical, factual, or even plausibility type arguments. Usually I don't engage in discussions/arguments which are driven solely by emotion and irrational impulses, such as politics, etc ...

(On an historical tangent). The only other widely documented case of discs being massively reauthored I can think of offhand, was after the the Sony/BMG rootkit was made public in late 2005. Come 2006, the record companies which were widely using xcp, cactus data shield, mediamax, etc ...

If Warner/MGM does any new pressings of James Bond titles, most likely it will be after "NO Time To Die" is released. No point in doing it sooner, especially when there appears to still be plenty of old Fox manufactured Bond inventory littering wallmart dump bins (both dvd and bluray). My...

The only exception would be if an update is mandated by the bluray/AACS licensing folks, to more recent AACS mkb encryption keys. The previous Fox released James Bond blurays have older AACS encryption keys which have already been cracked for a decade. I suspect if Warner/MGM were to...

I'm thinking of dvd or bluray titles where the original first-released versions had extra basketcase drm encoded on their original releases, while the subsequent repressings/re-releases had no extra basketcase drm at all. As concrete examples, I have many Sony dvd titles which were widely known...

A minimal "passive" bluray reauthoring, would be to use almost exactly the same iso filesystem as the old Fox manufactured version, but with an updated current aacs MKB encryption keys and NOT encoding the BD+ part at all.

I'm thinking of what might happen, once all the old Fox manufactured inventory is sold out. For most of the existing MGM evergreeen catalog stuff that is still in-print, it would seem dumb destroying/liquidating all the old Fox manufactured inventory. All they have to do it just put a Warner...

Though what is still unknown with Fox/MGM blurays, was who exactly was paying directly for the BD+ drm.

In the case of Fox/MGM blurays, the question is whether Warner/MGM is still willing to pay for the royalties per disc on the BD+ drm.

This will happen once all that old Fox manufactured inventory is sold out or "liquidated" outright (ie. becomes $2 dump bin fodder). If I were to waste more cash on James Bond, I might pick up a Warner re-released set where the blurays are redone by Warner/MGM and not encoded with the BD+ drm...

So far the only MGM stuff I have seen so far at local retailers, appear to be old Fox manufactured inventory where they just put a new "Warner" sticker over the old Fox information. For example, such as James Bond titles.