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> That doesn't mean the DRM works. You can find torrents of all those shows. Causation does not mean correlation. The vast majority of content available via to
by dylan604 1y ago
> That doesn't mean the DRM works. You can find torrents of all those shows.
Causation does not mean correlation. The vast majority of content available via torrents did not come from breaking a streamer's DRM.
- nitwit005 1y agoI didn't say anything about breaking the DRM. I suggested there's no reason to.
- dzhiurgis 1y agoAFAIK HDMI protects from direct ripping so how do they actually do it?
- lucb1e 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection#Master_key_release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content... You mean this? Doesn't sound that hard to bypass
- dzhiurgis 1y agoLooks like old version. 1080p max perhaps?
- Forgeties79 1y agoEh sort of sometimes maybe. Lots of hardware/cables out there that don’t care what you’re doing. I can use an ATEM mini to grab basically anything I want so long as I’m down to capture in real time.
- nitwit005 1y agoI assume HDCP is the reason a lot of ripped content is not in 4K (or because needs a more expensive Netflix subscription). It sounds like people just bypass it by using an HDMI splitter however.
- veegee 1y agoVery easy to remove it with an HDCP remover like HDFury, or even an HDCP downconverter and then using the known master keys to decrypt that.
- pta2002 1y agoRipping the HDMI stream (which is usually still breaking DRM!) is going to force you to reencode the video which will inevitably lose quality. You might also end up with UI elements on the screen and won’t be able to get subtitles out.
- crazygringo 1y agoIt didn't? Then how are they getting the streamed bits directly? Since there's generally a torrent available that is the direct source, no re-encoding. Or do you mean they read the source from hacking into a memory buffer after the player does decryption but before decoding, instead of doing the decryption themselves?
- dylan604 1y agoI’m saying they are getting the original from different sources than a streaming platform
- encrypted_bird 1y agoI don't see how that would work with videos that don't have differeny original sources. For example, Netflix-original shows/movies. While a small fraction are released on DVD/Blu-ray, the vast majority are only accessible through Netflix, nowhere else.
- pta2002 1y agoThis is completely bullshit. If you find a proper download, you’ll usually see something like “NFLX.WEB-DL” on the file name. That means it got ripped and downloaded from Netflix. The DRM decryption isn’t the hard bit - it’s actually mostly a standard thing, and there are plenty of tools on GitHub that will decrypt it from you if you have a key, e.g. Devine. The issue is mostly around getting a key, but those are easy enough to get if you know where to look (e.g. TV firmware dumps). Once you have this though, and any piracy group will have this, it’s so much easier to do this than to screen record, and will give you the original quality as well.