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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by problems on Friday July 07, 2017 @04:29PM (#14721791)
Let's encrypt the DOM in our open source browser... wait what?

EME is pretty great for cracking too - they enable rendering with the browser's own video engine, giving you a nice "hook to dump pre-decoded frame here" point.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by the8472 on Friday July 07, 2017 @06:18PM (#14722627)
Not necessarily, the CDM can offload the rendering to protected hardware pipelines instead of the browser's usual video rendering.

https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-encrypted-media-20160705/#medi...

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