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?
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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.