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If it was easy, people would have done it. These companies are flush with cash and legally armed to the teeth. Unless you are prepared to dedicate your entire l

If it was easy, people would have done it. These companies are flush with cash and legally armed to the teeth. Unless you are prepared to dedicate your entire life to this cause, the numbers don't add up for you to concern yourself with this. Write to your political representatives if you want to do the easy thing you can do.

pipo234 3y ago
Building DRM is actually quite simple, but building secure DRM is surprisingly difficult. https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-researcher-cracks-googles-widevine-drm-l3-only/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-researcher-cracks-goo... So far, Apple (Fairplay) is probably in the vanguard. But the obstacles aren't so much technical. It's laws like digital millennium copyright act and lack of a need. Many people are fine paying for access and don't mind that it isn't available on some of their devices. Those that don't want to pay have easier avenues like password sharing, bittorrent. The fact that it breaks fair use (and probably invades your privacy, or is riddled with bugs and security holes) is only interesting to FOSS hippies like us here.
p0w3n3d 3y ago
I think we are constantly losing our subsequent rights, that are taken from us in such manner: 1. people are allowed to X 2. other people exist who can do X in a malicious way that is forbidden 3. let's make a law that will prevent every citizen from X 4. only lawful citizens are forbidden to X, criminals are still X-ing The same is with the fading DVDs/BDs - you are forbidden to make a copy of DVD/BD unless it's a backup copy. Of course there is a DRM that forbids you to make a backup copy. Political representatives say "hey, but the company is obliged to make a copy for you if your copy is broken". However: a. the company or its representative in your country may cease to exist (e.g. games that were published in magazines) b. copies may become unavailable c. price of the copy may be higher than it should be
- pipo234 3y ago
  The world isn't fair. But the DRM folks are fighting an impossible battle, trying to make abundance scarce: Given an "asset" in digital form, make it so that it can be (mass-) distributed but cannot be copied. The solution they choose: encrypt the content with one key. The encrypted content is freely distributed (though not without cost, to the distributor), but worthless without the key. So the key is sold to every user that pays, but resides in a black box DRM library to prevent redistribution by the user. At scale, that's like giving all residents of, say, Luxembourg a copy of the same key and saying: you're not allowed to look at it because we're afraid you'll share the key with foreigners. Once you have physical access to a computer, it can only hide its secret through obscurity. And security through obscurity isn't the best.
krapp 3y ago
It is easy, the web is awash in memes that use screenshots. On Windows it's as easy as pressing the PrintScn key to copy a screenshot to the clip board then paste it in to any image application. Google tells me "Command+Shift+3" is the equivalent on Mac.

pipo234 3y ago

Building DRM is actually quite simple, but building secure DRM is surprisingly difficult. https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-researcher-cracks-googles-widevine-drm-l3-only/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-researcher-cracks-goo... So far, Apple (Fairplay) is probably in the vanguard. But the obstacles aren't so much technical. It's laws like digital millennium copyright act and lack of a need. Many people are fine paying for access and don't mind that it isn't available on some of their devices. Those that don't want to pay have easier avenues like password sharing, bittorrent. The fact that it breaks fair use (and probably invades your privacy, or is riddled with bugs and security holes) is only interesting to FOSS hippies like us here.

p0w3n3d 3y ago

I think we are constantly losing our subsequent rights, that are taken from us in such manner: 1. people are allowed to X 2. other people exist who can do X in a malicious way that is forbidden 3. let's make a law that will prevent every citizen from X 4. only lawful citizens are forbidden to X, criminals are still X-ing The same is with the fading DVDs/BDs - you are forbidden to make a copy of DVD/BD unless it's a backup copy. Of course there is a DRM that forbids you to make a backup copy. Political representatives say "hey, but the company is obliged to make a copy for you if your copy is broken". However: a. the company or its representative in your country may cease to exist (e.g. games that were published in magazines) b. copies may become unavailable c. price of the copy may be higher than it should be

pipo234 3y ago
The world isn't fair. But the DRM folks are fighting an impossible battle, trying to make abundance scarce: Given an "asset" in digital form, make it so that it can be (mass-) distributed but cannot be copied. The solution they choose: encrypt the content with one key. The encrypted content is freely distributed (though not without cost, to the distributor), but worthless without the key. So the key is sold to every user that pays, but resides in a black box DRM library to prevent redistribution by the user. At scale, that's like giving all residents of, say, Luxembourg a copy of the same key and saying: you're not allowed to look at it because we're afraid you'll share the key with foreigners. Once you have physical access to a computer, it can only hide its secret through obscurity. And security through obscurity isn't the best.

krapp 3y ago

It is easy, the web is awash in memes that use screenshots. On Windows it's as easy as pressing the PrintScn key to copy a screenshot to the clip board then paste it in to any image application. Google tells me "Command+Shift+3" is the equivalent on Mac.