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Why are Linux users limited to L3?
by brnt 2y ago
Why are Linux users limited to L3?
- jsheard 2y agoBecause it doesn't meet the requirements for L2. I think L2 implementations are required to block software screen recording, for example, and there isn't really any practical way to enforce that on an open platform. Windows/Android/iOS have special support for compositing protected content so if you try to read the framebuffer back the content just shows up as a black rectangle.
- Mindwipe 2y agoL1/L2 requires a third party who could be liable to sign that the drivers are unmodified to the hardware. On a general purpose Linux installation who would do that? (And who in the Linux using community wouldn't take any efforts by someone to try as an afront, bluntly).
- bee_rider 2y agoAlso there aren’t really enough of us watching videos on Linux for it to be a worthwhile market for them to address, I think.
- panzi 2y agoDRM only really works if you're not root on your own machine, and with Linux you're always root on your own machine. Quite frankly I think DRM (the normalization of rootkits) is dangerous.