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Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise by bombcar on Thursday May 09, 2024 @11:00AM (#40308927)
The point of the DRM schemes is basically to keep video "hard enough to copy that normies don't do it". And not even "normies can't find it on the Pirate Bay" but "you can right click and download from Netflix."

If they mostly succeed at that, they consider it good enough.

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Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise by jorams on Thursday May 09, 2024 @12:21PM (#40309805)
If that were true it would be possible to watch in 4k resolution on Netflix on Linux. But it's not.
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Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise by bombcar on Thursday May 09, 2024 @12:44PM (#40310083)
Because if "4k on Linux" was doable than "download a 4k rip directly" would shortly follow.
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Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise by grapescheesee on Thursday May 09, 2024 @01:31PM (#40310603)
Well, it sure seems to make a market for people who would/does pay for legitimate 4k video in their browser to pirate. I am happy to pay for streaming, but as the quality goes down so does any desire to shell out honest money.
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Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise by bombcar on Thursday May 09, 2024 @01:35PM (#40310661)
The thing that's breaking me is that I can't even figure out which combination of what I need to get what I want.

I just want to pay the $5 and watch the damn movie/show!

So instead I just ... check out the Roku from the library that has all the services and binge ;)

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