To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation

Re:To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation by fxtentacle on Monday October 09, 2023 @05:27PM (#37825742)

Kinda. You need access to a decryption key. The ones known to be leaked will be revoked, so you need one that cannot be revoked, because the financial fallout would be too painful. That's why WEB-DL rips are typically made using the DRM keys extracted out of very popular consumer TV models.

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Re:To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation by huytersd on Monday October 09, 2023 @07:36PM (#37826822)

So the WEB-DL rips are saved using homemade capture cards with the decryption module from popular consumer TVs since those can’t be revoked as they would brick those TVs?

Alternatively you just plug into the output of the decryption module in the monitor before it hits the screen?

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Re:To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation by fxtentacle on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:29AM (#37829108)

Roughly yes.

I believe you can also in some instances skip the hardware capture card and instead capture the data stream out of the host's RAM.

Inside the monitor, the decryption module and the main SoC controlling the hardware are usually the same physical chip, so grabbing data there will be close to impossible.

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