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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: 0.313s | 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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marcodiego ◴[27 Dec 21 18:01 UTC] No.29704881[source]▶
You're mixing up things. DRM goal is not to prevent copies, its goal is to give media producers control over the distributors.
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CorrectHorseBat ◴[27 Dec 21 18:15 UTC] No.29705042[source]▶
Care to elaborate? What are they gaining from that?
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marcodiego ◴[27 Dec 21 18:20 UTC] No.29705093[source]▶
Giant media conglomerate says to Big distributor:

  - Hi distributor! Do you want to distribute our content? You just have to make sure players will have this list of anti-features.
Big distributor says to manufacturer:

  - Hi manufacturer! Do you want to play the content we distrubute? You just have to make sure your TV's will have this list of anti-features.
And here we are.
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CorrectHorseBat ◴[27 Dec 21 18:59 UTC] No.29705563[source]▶
But what are they gaining from that?
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1. marcodiego ◴[28 Dec 21 03:09 UTC] No.29709868[source]▶
Some of it was discussed a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7751110