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They don't even need to deal with screen recording which this DRM is trying to protect against either. Just find a device that supports the highest playback res
by vanchor3 2y ago
They don't even need to deal with screen recording which this DRM is trying to protect against either. Just find a device that supports the highest playback resolution and steal the data right off the bus.
- gruez 2y agoThey thought of that. HDCP is supposed to prevent this by encrypting the video signal all the way to the playback device.
- anonymousiam 2y agoYeah, but the HDCP keys were cracked over 10 years ago, and there are plenty of Chinese-made devices that defeat it.
- gruez 2y agoThey were cracked several times, but HDCP has a revocation/rotation mechanism so it doesn't really change anything.
- ndiddy 2y agoIn 2010, an HDCP master key was leaked, allowing anyone to generate an infinite number of valid new HDCP devices. This has made HDCP useless for stopping piracy for the past 15 years. All it's done since then is add another point of failure between people's electronics and their displays.
- gruez 2y agoAccording to wikipedia, they released a non-backwards compatible update in 2013, which presumably fixes this.
- xnzakg 2y agoWonder how many people lost the ability to play ~~their content~~ the content they were licensing when they released that update, and had to buy new hardware because it was no longer supported.
- hapticmonkey 2y agoI believe these piracy groups arent hijacking the HDMI signal. They're cracking the Widevine DRM chain to grab the audio and video data from the stream and repackage it into an mkv file.
- russelg 2y agoThe way the groups typically achieve rips from streaming services is by using compromised Widevine L1 capable devices, and straight up extracting out the keys. This ends up in a dance of getting new devices when they eventually get blacklisted.