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xeonmc ◴[] No.45899355[source]
In ten years time YouTube will be entirely inaccessible from the browser as the iPad kids generation are used to doomscrolling the tablet app and Google feels confident enough to cut off the aging demographic.
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vachina ◴[] No.45899536[source]
They’d need dedicated hardware to enforce any kind of effective DRM. Encrypted bitstream generated on the fly watchable only on L2 attested device.
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lloeki ◴[] No.45899734[source]
Netflix is already there for 4k streams
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KeplerBoy ◴[] No.45899791[source]
And it's an entirely useless effort. No idea how it is done but the internet is full 4k rips.
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alex7o ◴[] No.45899965[source]
They find devices that are easy to hack (and I mean rip and tear) and extract the decryption keys from each of them, from what I have heard cheap chinese tvs and set top boxes, they extract the keys from the chips (hardware hacking, heard some even use microscopes to read the keys by hand), and then use them to decrypt streams, I heard that they catch them pretty fast to they use like 1 device per season. This is why they use mostly stollen devices.
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1. 13hunteo ◴[] No.45900054{3}[source]
Interesting - do you have any sources to read further?
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2. 47282847 ◴[] No.45900261[source]
Search for widevine decrypt. You’ll find code and forums where at least some L3 (software) keys are publicly shared. For high resolution on some platforms, you need L1 keys, but as far as I understand the decryption process basically stays the same once you have a working key.

Random article: https://www.ismailzai.com/blog/picking-the-widevine-locks

Claimed to be L1 key leaks (probably all blacklisted by now): https://github.com/Mavrick102/WIDEVINE-CDM-L1-Giveaway

3. sodality2 ◴[] No.45902692[source]
You won't find a ton of up-to-date info that would let you do the same - the scene groups hold their methods closely specifically because of this cat-and-mouse game.