

The drive refuses to take any and all Blu-ray discs, including ones that I know for a fact work. I've tried restarting and updating my computer, to no avail. But last year, decrypting AACS did cause the MakeMKV website trouble. It is uncertain whether the decryption of UHD files obeys the law. There may be something wrong with the health, money, or living situation of the developer. the disk and it tried to grind through them doing its preview step, but ultimated once it quieted down, there was nothing to rip.

I've never heard of a drive failing because it couldn't read a disc properly. MakeMKV is shut down by some Russian government agency. I refuse to believe that this is a hardware issue, since it seems impossibly unlikely that two drives (albeit with the same model number and firmware) would have the exact same problem after failing to read the exact same disc. I did the same as I already said, and the exact same thing happened. After patching the firmware so it works well with MakeMKV (LibreDrive and all), I ripped a Blu-ray as a test it worked fine, so I got to work on this disc. The first time, I put it down to a hardware failure, assuming the blue laser had died, and bought another. The really weird part is that this is the second time it's happened in about a week. CDs and DVDs continue to work fine, however. It doesn't show anything in lsblk, no disc appears to be able to mount, nothing. The drive makes a whole bunch of seeking noises, and spins up a bunch of times, but never gets anywhere, and eventually stops trying. The problem is, after using MakeMKV to try and backup the disc, the drive is unable to read the disc at all, and after this point, the drive cannot read any Blu-rays at all. I've been attempting (somewhat fruitlessly) to rip a Blu-ray disc that appears to have a bad sector on it (thanks, BBC).
