How to own your media without buying physical media Version 2.0: take a camera and point it at the screen and hit record. Now you can enjoy feature films and television whenever you wish.
Extra points if you obtained them from a kind, chatty Chinese man in a pub beer garden, who would go round to all the tables with his blue plastic bag from the corner shop. Probably about 2005 in the UK. Ahhh memories
I did the same for the Black Rock Shooter OVA saw someone get up and move. Didn't even know what was being said since it was only in Japanese at the time lol
I first watched Avatar by bootleg on my laptop with some dudes at work. Initially had difficulty understanding why everyone was in love with the movie because I wasn't dazzled by the visuals lol
Funnily enough, that's what Quinton Reviews did in his CN Real video when tried to screen record Episodes of Dude What Would Happen and Destroy Build Destroy, but it wouldn't work and he was forced to do what you just described.
You can turn off hardware acceleration / graphics acceleration in your browsers settings, which will make you able to record the screen. :) I used to do this on Netflix.
You can find the setting in “system” on Brave browser. Probably something similar in others
And get some friends to get up in front of the camera to get more popcorn and cough and adjust their big hair. And once in a while you pass around with a light stick looking through rows, so the camera needs to go dark for a few seconds. Then back up, but no longer aligned properly. And the sound of fabric rubbing over the microphone.
How to own your media without buying physical media Version 3.0: Create a virtual machine using something like VirtualBox. Open streaming platform of choice. Use screen recorder or main machine. Full screen virtual machine. EzPz.
They didn't "know", thats just encryption of the Content called HDCP. This protects from stuff like Screenrecording. You can Bypass it tho. There are tools around.
Does it? because i use DP for two of my displays and when I take a screenshot it blackout my ADHD Family guy Hulu video, when I activate Nvidia replay it starts tweaking out saying "Nvidia replay cannot be enabled."
If you want to see it's benefit go to heroforge and see the difference with and without.
But it's also how the Netflix and the like block screen capture
There are various encryption methods in place, and DRM mechanisms (e.g. encryption of cable content and screenshot blocking). Running Disney+ through a VM is likely to not work at all given these mechanisms aren't supported, or to run at a lower resolution.
This is probably widevine, a drm extension. On most browsers you should be able to disable drm. Some sites will lock you out and give you message to enable it, but I think certain streaming services still allow you to stream without it. I haven't tested this in close to 5 years though. Alternatively you can stream through a virtual machine and then screen cap that
Make sure for whatever browser you are using you turn off hardware acceleration. I could not tell you why but for me this works for streaming to discord so I’d assume it would work for recording via OBS or whatever.
There is this app, Sandbox, you can use to isolate your browser(you have to stream on the browser for this) and it will prevent the browser to know that your screen recording
What a noob smh.
Learned this like 2 years ago when me and the boys were watching movies on discord. You have to turn off a setting in chrome/firefox. Just google it.
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u/LB1234567890 ☢ Jun 07 '25
Yeeahhh so Disney+ "knew" I was trying to record the screen and it just blackened everything lol.