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But if I wanted to do something other than watch the film why wouldn’t I just download it from a “pirate” site? What is the benefit to the rights holder in hav
by midasuni 3y ago
But if I wanted to do something other than watch the film why wouldn’t I just download it from a “pirate” site?
What is the benefit to the rights holder in having a “secure device”
- charcircuit 3y ago>What is the benefit to the rights holder in having a “secure device” The goal is to make it expensive for it to even make it to a pirate site. We will get to the point where it will require a new hardware exploit to be found for each show that gets cracked. As the industry gets better at security the price per exploit will go up to eventually not be economical to continue doing.
- midasuni 3y agoGiven it just needs to be done once, and a hdcp stripping device is easy to get, how does that work?
- dns_snek 3y agoIt doesn't, it's a coping mechanism for companies to be able to say they're "doing something". If DRM worked, I wouldn't be able to watch it on my bootleg setup in an hour or less after it officially releases on streaming platforms.
- charcircuit 3y ago>Given it just needs to be done once Since it is still the early days I think they are hesitant to ban every insecure device once one is discovered. This greatly decreased the cost for attackers. >and a hdcp stripping device Those only work with older versions of HDCP. Over time newer versions of HDCP will keep making the security better making it eventually impossible for an external splitter to work. No such splitter exists for HDCP 2.3 which came out 6 years ago.
- potwinkle 3y agoEven if HDCP 2.3 was unsplittable (it's not, you just can't buy the tools on Amazon) it's a futile effort by rightsholders due to the analog hole. There will never be a way to show someone a video without showing them the video.