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"Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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449 points bertman | 10 comments | 27 Dec 21 12:55 UTC | HN request time: 1.447s | source | bottom
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vmception ◴[27 Dec 21 14:56 UTC] No.29702940[source]▶
This is one of those github repositories that you just clone and move on.

Don't fork, just clone to your local system. When it gets taken down the forks will disappear, whereas the clones will not. You can also just download a zip file.

https://github.com/widevinedump?tab=repositories

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1. jrm4 ◴[27 Dec 21 15:42 UTC] No.29703359[source]▶
"Making an imaginary-ish copy that stays on the big Microsoft-owned system is mostly unnecessary and probably not enough to keep it around, make sure you save a copy on your own computer that they can't get to."

Don't want to be (too) condescending, but, as an old-timer it's kind of wild to me that people who work with tech a lot do actually sometimes need to be reminded of this.

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2. vmception ◴[27 Dec 21 15:51 UTC] No.29703445[source]▶
Its wild to me too, but I've seen people actually debate fork perseverance and I'm always confused what the issue is when you can just have a local copy but somehow that often never gets brought up in those conversations. Its not even about something used in a package manager, they just really had no backup when the default behavior of the git protocol is to have a backup. I'm like "wait did they actually lose something?" so since that seems to be the case, yeah, gotta remind people.
3. jrm4 ◴[27 Dec 21 16:08 UTC] No.29703620[source]▶
Okay, I know I might be breaking some kind of HN rule here, but I'm super genuinely curious as to why the downvotes here. Seriously. Is it "because people already know and I'm being condescending?" Is it "No, they shouldn't do this and instead allow the code to be censored?" Where are y'all going with this?
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4. ShamelessC ◴[27 Dec 21 16:16 UTC] No.29703686[source]▶
> Don't want to be (too) condescending

was what did it for me. basically claiming superiority prior to any actual engagement/discussion.

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5. jrm4 ◴[27 Dec 21 16:18 UTC] No.29703703{3}[source]▶
:) Fair.
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6. tomc1985 ◴[27 Dec 21 16:21 UTC] No.29703744[source]▶
"Cloud-native" youth seem to have forgotten a huge chunk of computing
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7. alias_neo ◴[27 Dec 21 16:21 UTC] No.29703746[source]▶
It continues to amaze me that so many people in my profession (software) don't know that Git is "decentralized".

GitHub et al have taken over so ubiquitously that many developers I know have no idea that a bunch of what they do isn't even Git, and a bunch of what they don't do, is.

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8. vmception ◴[27 Dec 21 17:27 UTC] No.29704510[source]▶
Did you see this gem the other day?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29668260

I'm still not convinced it wasn't a troll thread. Its like its either a troll, or a coding academy class just graduated alongside a bunch of self-starters that made "coding" their pandemic project, where some popular TikTok content creator must be telling people to hang out on hackernews.

9. jrm4 ◴[27 Dec 21 18:34 UTC] No.29705253[source]▶
Wonder if they pay any attention to who wrote it as well. :)
10. johnisgood ◴[27 Dec 21 21:20 UTC] No.29706902{4}[source]▶
I think it is also fair to expect them to know it without such reminders.