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Interesting audit, but you’ll likely hit a wall trying to build a scraper for those keys.

There’s a specific reason MakeMKV doesn't distribute hashed keys offline like the public keydb.cfg and keeps it server-side intentionally. By making the client phone home, the server only hands over what's ...

All my ASUS and LG drives failed with Gladiator UHD. I could only rip them with my Pioneer

I believe this is voltage SAG. UHD drivess draw a significant current spike on the 5V line when the laser assembly kicks into high-speed reading for dense triple-layer discs.

DELL mobo is designed for their basic OEM DVD-RW, which sips power in comparison. This causes drive's controller to brown ...

Pioneer resets their year alphabet periodically.

Position 1 (the first letter) is the Year, and Position 2 (the second letter) is the Month (A through L for Jan-Dec).
Pioneer reset their year cycle to start at 'A' in 2001.

So for NIDL001216JP:

1st char 'N' = 2014 (since A=2001, B=2002... N=2014 ...