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Apple prevents their users from taking screenshots of Top Gun Maverick

10 points by breck 4y ago

arvonle 4y ago
Is this not how DRM works ? If you support deliberately handicapped content distribution platforms with your money do not blame anyone else but yourself Edit: more precisely playback of DRMed content requires the endpoint to provide the distributor with guarantees wrt content duplication. It works exactly the same with DRMed content in Firefox because ultimately Apple/Mozilla do not make decisions on what you can or cannot do, Amazon Prime dictates that you can only access content if you relinquish your rights to prtscr (that is - the DR in DRM), and you decided to access the content.
chimineycricket 4y ago
The Netflix app also does this.
warinukraine 4y ago
Stallman was right, as usual. It's not your phone, it's apple's phone
TDiblik 4y ago
This tweet lacks a lot of context. In what app was the screenshot taken? - for example netflix does this for all screenshots inside their app. Do other screenshots look blank as well? - screenshot feature could be broken, idk lol What version of ios does she use? - I heard there are a lot of bugs in the current beta I don'l like apple, however this is next level. Just tweeted something, tagged a lot of famous people for technical support and left angry...
- TDiblik 4y ago
  *does he use - typo
- breck 4y ago
  > In what app was the screenshot taken? Amazon Prime video on macOS. I thought I could always count on Shift+Command+4. Imagine I'm talking to someone who is having a heart attack and want to send them a screenshot of a video with a bunch of tips on what to do. Shit like this really happens. > netflix Well fuck Netflix too then. > ios This was macOs. I am not sure about iOs.
Someone 4y ago
This doesn’t mention the API used, and the best Google gives me (via https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18680028/prevent-screen-capture-in-an-ios-app https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18680028/prevent-screen-...) is https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitextinputtraits/1624427-issecuretextentry https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitextinputt...: “A Boolean value that indicates whether a text object disables copying, and in some cases, prevents recording/broadcasting and also hides the text.” ⇒ it seems people creatively use this feature to hide views below such fields from screenshots, as in https://github.com/Stampoo/SnapshotSafeView https://github.com/Stampoo/SnapshotSafeView (and, possibly, the commercial https://screenshieldkit.com/ https://screenshieldkit.com/) I do wonder what those “some cases” are, though, and also why we would want to not show a secure text field in a screen recording. Is giving away the length of your password deemed such a risk?
- trinovantes 4y ago
  This is a case where the oxford comma would help remove ambiguity I think it's supposed to list: - disables copying - (in some cases) prevents recording/broadcasting - hides the text Where "some cases" is simply some minimum iOS version and/or some other unknown hardware configuration that allows the device to prevent video recording
  - bananarchist 4y ago
    Only if your interpretation is correct - otherwise the serial comma is wrong. I read it differently because of the use of “also”
    - trinovantes 4y ago
      I don't think the comma usage was wrong. The commas around "and in some cases" serve as both serializing the list and inserting the extra information that otherwise could've been removed from the sentence. However, it might have been better to use parenthesis to avoid the ambiguity. The use of parallel verbs "disables", "prevents", and "hides" was a strong indicator to me that it was a list. I interpreted the "and also" at the end as a stylistic choice since the first two items follows the form "[verb] [ing-verb]" whereas the last item doesn't.

10 points by breck 4y ago

Is this not how DRM works ? If you support deliberately handicapped content distribution platforms with your money do not blame anyone else but yourself Edit: more precisely playback of DRMed content requires the endpoint to provide the distributor with guarantees wrt content duplication. It works exactly the same with DRMed content in Firefox because ultimately Apple/Mozilla do not make decisions on what you can or cannot do, Amazon Prime dictates that you can only access content if you relinquish your rights to prtscr (that is - the DR in DRM), and you decided to access the content.

chimineycricket 4y ago

The Netflix app also does this.

warinukraine 4y ago

Stallman was right, as usual. It's not your phone, it's apple's phone

TDiblik 4y ago

This tweet lacks a lot of context. In what app was the screenshot taken? - for example netflix does this for all screenshots inside their app. Do other screenshots look blank as well? - screenshot feature could be broken, idk lol What version of ios does she use? - I heard there are a lot of bugs in the current beta I don'l like apple, however this is next level. Just tweeted something, tagged a lot of famous people for technical support and left angry...

TDiblik 4y ago
*does he use - typo
breck 4y ago
> In what app was the screenshot taken? Amazon Prime video on macOS. I thought I could always count on Shift+Command+4. Imagine I'm talking to someone who is having a heart attack and want to send them a screenshot of a video with a bunch of tips on what to do. Shit like this really happens. > netflix Well fuck Netflix too then. > ios This was macOs. I am not sure about iOs.

Someone 4y ago

This doesn’t mention the API used, and the best Google gives me (via https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18680028/prevent-screen-capture-in-an-ios-app https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18680028/prevent-screen-...) is https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitextinputtraits/1624427-issecuretextentry https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitextinputt...: “A Boolean value that indicates whether a text object disables copying, and in some cases, prevents recording/broadcasting and also hides the text.” ⇒ it seems people creatively use this feature to hide views below such fields from screenshots, as in https://github.com/Stampoo/SnapshotSafeView https://github.com/Stampoo/SnapshotSafeView (and, possibly, the commercial https://screenshieldkit.com/ https://screenshieldkit.com/) I do wonder what those “some cases” are, though, and also why we would want to not show a secure text field in a screen recording. Is giving away the length of your password deemed such a risk?

trinovantes 4y ago
This is a case where the oxford comma would help remove ambiguity I think it's supposed to list: - disables copying - (in some cases) prevents recording/broadcasting - hides the text Where "some cases" is simply some minimum iOS version and/or some other unknown hardware configuration that allows the device to prevent video recording
- bananarchist 4y ago
  Only if your interpretation is correct - otherwise the serial comma is wrong. I read it differently because of the use of “also”
  - trinovantes 4y ago
    I don't think the comma usage was wrong. The commas around "and in some cases" serve as both serializing the list and inserting the extra information that otherwise could've been removed from the sentence. However, it might have been better to use parenthesis to avoid the ambiguity. The use of parallel verbs "disables", "prevents", and "hides" was a strong indicator to me that it was a list. I interpreted the "and also" at the end as a stylistic choice since the first two items follows the form "[verb] [ing-verb]" whereas the last item doesn't.