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Which doesn’t prevent you from taking screenshots… (and doesn’t make it especially difficult to just capture the whole stream either) This whole screenshot poi

Which doesn’t prevent you from taking screenshots… (and doesn’t make it especially difficult to just capture the whole stream either) This whole screenshot point is silly to begin with, because screenshots aren’t a form of piracy or copyright infringement.

dagmx 3y ago
It prevents you from taking high resolution recordings , whether they’re screenshots or video. You either take a low resolution capture or the DRM layer prevents content from being displayed when recording. The legality of the subject is not something I’m talking about. You just asked for examples and I provided them.
- AmericanChopper 3y ago
  For starters, it does nothing at all to prevent taking screen shots. Which is what this thread is about. As for high quality video capture, it is trivially easy to do. How do you think high quality copies of Netflix-only content ends up on the pirate bay they same day it comes out?
  - progbits 3y ago
    Yes it does. HD Netflix in Chrome, Edge or Safari will result in black rectangle when you screenshot it.
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  - dagmx 3y ago
    Yes it does prevent taking screenshots of high resolution playback. Your options become low resolution capture or nothing. High quality captures are still possible if you connect an external capture device coupled with something that provides the necessary drm authentication or you need a software based drm defeat. Neither are “trivial” as you say.
    - AmericanChopper 3y ago
      An HDMI splitter completely removes HDCP, so if you want to do a hardware approach, that doesn't require any software at all. If you don't want to use some cheap product from amazon, just run Netflix in a desktop VM. Both of these options are very trivial to implement, no complicated software bypass at all. Also remember that for piracy to occur, you only need one person to go to this very small level of effort to get a torrent uploaded. These protections are useless, and achieve nothing other than bothering legitimate users. Also, here's a screenshot I just took of a Netflix show (it's 1080p, but still...) https://imgur.com/a/evJjf06 https://imgur.com/a/evJjf06

dagmx 3y ago

It prevents you from taking high resolution recordings , whether they’re screenshots or video. You either take a low resolution capture or the DRM layer prevents content from being displayed when recording. The legality of the subject is not something I’m talking about. You just asked for examples and I provided them.

AmericanChopper 3y ago
For starters, it does nothing at all to prevent taking screen shots. Which is what this thread is about. As for high quality video capture, it is trivially easy to do. How do you think high quality copies of Netflix-only content ends up on the pirate bay they same day it comes out?
- progbits 3y ago
  Yes it does. HD Netflix in Chrome, Edge or Safari will result in black rectangle when you screenshot it.
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- dagmx 3y ago
  Yes it does prevent taking screenshots of high resolution playback. Your options become low resolution capture or nothing. High quality captures are still possible if you connect an external capture device coupled with something that provides the necessary drm authentication or you need a software based drm defeat. Neither are “trivial” as you say.
  - AmericanChopper 3y ago
    An HDMI splitter completely removes HDCP, so if you want to do a hardware approach, that doesn't require any software at all. If you don't want to use some cheap product from amazon, just run Netflix in a desktop VM. Both of these options are very trivial to implement, no complicated software bypass at all. Also remember that for piracy to occur, you only need one person to go to this very small level of effort to get a torrent uploaded. These protections are useless, and achieve nothing other than bothering legitimate users. Also, here's a screenshot I just took of a Netflix show (it's 1080p, but still...) https://imgur.com/a/evJjf06 https://imgur.com/a/evJjf06