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True to some extent of course, but HD content seems to be better protected. Then again, HD video content also takes up large amounts of bandwidth and storage s

True to some extent of course, but HD content seems to be better protected. Then again, HD video content also takes up large amounts of bandwidth and storage space (especially with the newer features that are being added over time), which means that we'd expect it to be less common on these platforms anyway.

blackflame7000 8y ago
In 2010 the HDCP master key was leaked basically killing DRM for HDMI. The KEY take away, pun intended, is that when you get the opportunity to use RSA or invent your own scheme, use RSA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Conte...
- the8472 8y ago
  It's always more desirable to grab data closer to the source, e.g. the compressed stream instead of stuff further downstream that made it through the playback pipeline to HDMI.
  - blackflame7000 8y ago
    The quality will still be the same you'll just have the burden of having to rip massive unencoded raw dump files and the time to recompress it.
    - the8472 8y ago
      The recompression is a lossy step which you do not incur when extracting the already compressed data from BDs or VoD streams.
      - m-p-3 8y ago
        Yeah, better grab the already compressed copy and extract it without recompression and the DRMs.
- dawnerd 8y ago
  4K has also been mostly cracked and it seems recently iTunes as well (for 4K).
  - nolok 8y ago
    "4K has been cracked" means absolutely nothing; it's a resolution. You probably mean one specific file format or distribution channel has been broken but I have no idea which from your comment.
- egeozcan 8y ago
  > In 2010 the HDCP master key was leaked Discussion from Sept 14, 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1689669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1689669