> which will be cracked within days if not hours.

Netflix requires an EME module since quite some time, and I'm not aware of any successful cracks.

All Netflix-exclusive shows are available up to 4K on torrent networks:

https://thepiratebay.org/search/house%20of%20cards%202160p/0...

https://thepiratebay.org/search/orange%20is%20the%20new%20bl...

https://1337x.to/search/ozark+2160p/1/

What’s left to steal?

Meanwhile the majority of Netflix customers is limited to 720p video like it’s 2001. [1]

[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/55763

> Google Chrome up to 720p

  Internet Explorer up to 1080p

  Microsoft Edge up to 4K*

  Mozilla Firefox up to 720p

  Opera up to 720p

  Windows 8 app up to 1080p

  Windows 10 app up to 4K*

(from your link). And people wonder why I still use torrents...

Depends what we mean by 'crack'.

A few years ago I was surprised to see that Netflix in Chrome on Linux didn't prevent screen-capture. If I recall correctly, On Windows, it won't let you screenshot Netflix - you get a black box instead.

Failing that, it's possible to record high-quality analogue output from, say, a Playstation 3. Failing that, it's always possible to point a camera at a screen.

Piracy of video isn't something that technologies like EME can hope to eliminate entirely, they can only raise the bar. For Netflix, that's acceptable. They compete with BitTorrent piracy and win on convenience.

Only Windows with Edge can play 4k. Chrome is 720p.

Have you tried Netflix on Edge? Maybe it's just anecdotal, but I've tried multiple i7 (3xxx, 5xxx, 7xxx and 8xxx series) and Ryzen 1700/1700x systems (GPU: NVIDIA 960M, 970, 1050, 2 different 1070 TIs) and ALL of them lag horribly while using Edge. Loading Netflix is slow. Selecting a profile takes several seconds. The entire browser locks up. I generally find a show using Firefox, then open Edge and search manually to get my 1080p playback. I'm wondering if it's just a bug but it's been like this on 4 different computers so far. Netflix the App itself is also incredibly laggy on Windows 10, not sure if the issues are somehow related to one another. Am I the only one who has this?

>Have you tried Netflix on Edge?

I don't have Netflix

Fair point.

Apparently it's possible to trick Netflix into 1080P on Chrome, in at least some cases - https://www.ghacks.net/2018/02/12/watch-netflix-in-1080p-on-...

Well Netflix's content is pirated just as much as any other content, so I guess it was cracked in some way?

You can strip HDCP from HDMI 2.2 [0] and then just capture that stream. Very easy to do. Anything that can be seen on your screen can be captured and shared.

0. https://www.amazon.com/HDMI-Splitter-Supports-Pass-through-D...

Where does it say "strip"?

>-Support HDR & HDCP 2.2 Pass-through

Which is not stripping away anything.

Like flashlight apps containing hidden tethering proxies[1], these products would quickly be taken down if they advertised their real functionality.

Those who remember the old analogue "video stabilisers" used for stripping Macrovision copy protection signals will find this similar.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2010/07/apple-approves-pulls-flashligh...

It is passthrough, but it just so happens that the hdcp protection doesn't quite make it through on many of these devices.