I have read a few people commenting that that's how it is done. I read a very good comment once here on hn that described extracting keys from insecure devices

I have read a few people commenting that that's how it is done. I read a very good comment once here on hn that described extracting keys from insecure devices (might have been TVs, or possibly an older Android device?), although I can't find the comment now. Also they often contain every subtitle and audio track (often 40 subtitle tracks!), which would be either a lot of work or not possible at all if they couldn't extract the stream properly. I suppose they might be able to get those from the low quality unencrypted streams but it just seems implausible. They release shows pretty much immediately as soon as they are on netflix, don't they? It seems improbable to me that they are systematically recording and reencoding every show manually, although I guess it could be possible in theory. A friend of a friend tells me that they've never seen UI elements or quality drops on any scene rips. All signs seem to point to the encryption being broken in my opinion.