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Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise by brnt on Thursday May 09, 2024 @11:35AM (#40309304)
Why are Linux users limited to L3?
Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise by jsheard on Thursday May 09, 2024 @11:39AM (#40309349)
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 (#40309708)
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 (#40309825)
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 (#40310517)
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.