Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
by jsheard on Thursday May 09, 2024 @10:56AM
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There's three Winevine tiers, L1, L2 and L3, which generally correspond to 4K, 1080p and 720p respectively though it depends on the service. L3 is what you get on Linux. L2 is supposed to be more secure than L3 but AFAICT it makes little difference to piracy groups, L1 is the only actual roadblock for them.
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Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
by brnt on Thursday May 09, 2024 @11:35AM
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Why are Linux users limited to L3?
Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
by jsheard on Thursday May 09, 2024 @11:39AM
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Because it doesn't meet the requirements for L2. I think L2 implementations are required to block software screen recording, for example, and there isn't really any practical way to enforce that on an open platform. Windows/Android/iOS have special support for compositing protected content so if you try to read the framebuffer back the content just shows up as a black rectangle.
Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
by Mindwipe on Thursday May 09, 2024 @12:13PM
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L1/L2 requires a third party who could be liable to sign that the drivers are unmodified to the hardware.
On a general purpose Linux installation who would do that?
(And who in the Linux using community wouldn't take any efforts by someone to try as an afront, bluntly).
Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
by bee_rider on Thursday May 09, 2024 @12:23PM
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Also there aren’t really enough of us watching videos on Linux for it to be a worthwhile market for them to address, I think.
Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
by panzi on Thursday May 09, 2024 @01:24PM
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DRM only really works if you're not root on your own machine, and with Linux you're always root on your own machine. Quite frankly I think DRM (the normalization of rootkits) is dangerous.