It’s a LOCAL privilege escalation vulnerability. You need sufficient access to be able to execute arbitrary code locally on the machine. You would need a remote code execution vulnerability in an exposed service (VPN, web server, game server and so on) before an attacker could chain to this to get remote root on your system.
This disclosure has been rushed for the views and hype IMO, none of the big distros had fixes ready to go on this this morning.
Blueray bitrate is lower than even 1gbps so even full remux is downloadable at a speed you could begin to watch it the same day while later episodes continue to download. You wouldn’t need the full series downloaded up front.
Yeah I’m sure that will keep it offline.
I’m playing them preemtively, once they come down to a couple of dollars I’ll totally pay for them for all the time I spent playing them when they were expensive.