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

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449 points bertman | 1 comments | 27 Dec 21 12:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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alufers ◴[27 Dec 21 16:43 UTC] No.29703989[source]▶
Can we just stop the shitshow with DRM? I have NEVER encountered a TV show/movie that I could't rip using a torrent either on public p2p sites or a private tracker.

But I have seen a lot of my non-technical friends and family having a degraded experience, who pay for their streaming services every month. It was either because they were using a browser or device which was deemed unworthy of full quality streaming by the mighty DRM authors. And now the poor users of the TB-X505X will also have a degraded experience.

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1. pengaru ◴[27 Dec 21 18:46 UTC] No.29705404[source]▶
> But I have seen a lot of my non-technical friends and family having a degraded experience, who pay for their streaming services every month.

That's a feature, not a bug, from the perspective of those pushing DRM and other access/consumption controls onto consumers.

How many times will someone buy the same content just to find the best combination across all their services and devices to fit their current arrangement? A hell of a lot more than if they just bought a universally playable instance of maximum quality that never gave a poor experience in any viewing context.

It's an ugly, exploitive rent-seeking form of "worse is better".