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This restriction is meant to protect high definition content from being ripped by pirates. Open systems don't offer the same DRM guarantees as the locked ones.
Ironically means that everything I watch on my Linux machine will definitely be pirated.
locked ones don't provide DRM guarantees either. it takes a script kiddie five minutes to break DRM whenever some new scheme comes out.
It's probably contractual obligations from shitty media companies.
quite probably. Ironically it does nothing helpful because pirates are gonna pirate.
If anything, it's does the opposite by driving would-be legitimate buyers (well... Subscribers) into piracy.
You won't provide it to me even if I pay you, because you don't like the system I use? Fine, I'll keep my money and pirate it instead.
the Dutch East India Company were the bad guys. Just saying.
...ok?
TF does that have to do with modern media piracy?
If the monopoly is the bad guys… the pirates are the good guys, right?
Ah, I see.
If purchasing isn't owning, then pirating can't be stealing.
Which is bullshit because DRM doesn't effectively prevent ripping (source: you can find pirated hd content). So it's literally only harmful to the customer.
I'll give you a quick demo of how DRM is literally useless at protecting content:
Now, this is a terrible way of ripping content, it causes at least one reencoding, which reduces quality (a lot of people won't even notice it), but it is a stupidly simple working demo of DRM circumvention.
Btw, that procedure is not the result of some study, reverse engineering, or any clever stuff. I was literally playing a game in streaming and I went "hmm, I wonder what would happen if I streamed widevine" and it just worked.
A much more simpler method is to just use Streamfab. No need for nVidia, a second PC etc.
What do you know, I have that kind of setup. I kinda want to try that now. I ain't gonna subscribe to Netflix just to test this for myself tho.
Will they stop doing that after it's available online? No point to continue protecting from pirates once it's already out. Oh what's that? They won't do that? Why not? Is it because they're lazy or malicious?