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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by crackercrews on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:49PM (#28297857)
If it ignores HDCP, doesn't that prevent you from using it to play Netflix and Amazon Prime content?
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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by AlexAndScripts on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @04:17AM (#28299153)
Nope, it just strips the DRM. All of that work locking down devices, and it's trivially circumvented. Of course, desktop Linux is still not allowed to watch in high quality - that would compromise the DRM!
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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by iso1210 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @05:20AM (#28299468)
These devices pretend to pay attention to HDCP, tell the tranmitting device "oh yes I'm good", but then ignore it.
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