Re:Security researcher cracks Google's Widevine DRM (L3 only)
by voltagex_ on Friday January 04, 2019 @10:49PM
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Sigh, so not useful for archival of purchased video at all.
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Re:Security researcher cracks Google's Widevine DRM (L3 only)
by skybrian on Sunday January 06, 2019 @10:41AM
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I don't see why not? 720p is higher than DVD quality and plenty good enough for entertainment purposes.
Kids these days...
Re:Security researcher cracks Google's Widevine DRM (L3 only)
by contingencies on Friday January 04, 2019 @11:18PM
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Also, it's a 10 year old DRM system at this point. Anything encoded for on-demand distribution across networks 10 years ago was probably done at poor qualities in general. Source: Used to work in the industry.
Re:Security researcher cracks Google's Widevine DRM (L3 only)
by iofiiiiiiiii on Saturday January 05, 2019 @11:10AM
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No. There are two entirely different DRM systems named Widevine. Up to version 6.0 was old legacy DRM from way back. Widevine 7.0 is the current version, published only a few years back, also called Widevine Modular. This is a modern cutting-edge DRM equivalent to Microsoft PlayReady and Apple FairPlay. Together, these 3 make up the big DRMs in the industry.
Re:Security researcher cracks Google's Widevine DRM (L3 only)
by contingencies on Sunday January 06, 2019 @01:58AM
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Oh OK, stopped following DRM after that job! :) Fun tidbit: We did the first commercial deployment globally of PlayReady for Samsung's galaxy devices US launch. MS paid Samsung to use it.