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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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yard2010 ◴[] No.45899807[source]
Can you explain in simple terms what would prevent one from running the decryption programmatically posing as the end client?
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1. immibis ◴[] No.45903399[source]
You don't get access to the decryption code nor the keys - both are hardwired in silicon.

We'll eventually be able to reverse-engineer that and run it programmatically, but it will take a long time.

And when they catch you doing so, they'll ban your (personalized) encryption key so you'll just have to buy another graphics card to get another key.

This is how it already works, not some future thing. But the licensing fees make it so it only gets used for Hollywood-level movies.