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The VPN sorted it all out. Thanks for that!

As a follow-up question while I get the VPN sorted out. I have already ripped close to 2 dozen regular blu-ray discs without any issue. Why would they rip just fine and the UHD discs give me problems, if it is really decryption key related (this assumes that all blu-rays need a decryption key).

Yes I do. I have a content blocker setup on my router for the ru domain and probably some ip groups for the same region. I'm not user what kind of filtering the IT department of my university does to the internet before it hits my router (or if that even matters).

I'm having issues decrypting the 4k LOTR discs to rip them. I've tried several of then and I get the same issue. Upon looking through the forum I see that the decryption keys should be available for download by the makeMKV software and I do have the check for updates enabled in preferences. My drive...