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"Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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Post by JZL003 »

searine wrote: post #52
specialist wrote: post #44

I just want to control the viewing experience, not hoard warez. Effortless rewind, skip filler (car chases, sex), play at x1.25 speed, etc. aka the "Blu-Ray experience". If that means I gotta bypass the DRM and download, so be it. -- Some shows have my complete rapt attention. I'll keenly watch (and rewatch) every single frame. Like Netflix's Maniac. OMG. So frikkin good. (So many other examples.) Other shows, especi…

FYI There is a great chrome extension that allows you to control playback speed, and it works on just about every video site.

On my phone so can't respond fully but if you select the element in chrome and Firefox, you can control the .playbackRate attribute. Extensions can be useful but also abused, this is simple enough to do with a bookmarklet or manually

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

#102

Post by odiroot »

ramraj07 wrote: post #90
specialist wrote: post #44

I just want to control the viewing experience, not hoard warez. Effortless rewind, skip filler (car chases, sex), play at x1.25 speed, etc. aka the "Blu-Ray experience". If that means I gotta bypass the DRM and download, so be it. -- Some shows have my complete rapt attention. I'll keenly watch (and rewatch) every single frame. Like Netflix's Maniac. OMG. So frikkin good. (So many other examples.) Other shows, especi…

Who the hell skips car chases? What movie had a car chase that you wanted to skip that made that movie more watchable (this sentence applies to the furious films as well, skipping the chase scenes there gives you the dumbest drama of all time).

As a counter example, I watch Bullitt just for the car chase.

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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Post by specialist »

tyingq wrote: post #92
ramraj07 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who the hell skips car chases? What movie had a car chase that you wanted to skip that made that movie more watchable (this sentence applies to the furious films as well, skipping the chase scenes there gives you the dumbest drama of all time).

Imagining "Baby Driver" edited this way.

Exceptions to every rule, right? The car chases in Baby Driver are crucial to the story. So good.

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

#104

Post by antihero »

alufers wrote: post #100

Can we just stop the shitshow with DRM? I have NEVER encountered a TV show/movie that I could't rip using a torrent either on public p2p sites or a private tracker. But I have seen a lot of my non-technical friends and family having a degraded experience, who pay for their streaming services every month. It was either because they were using a browser or device which was deemed unworthy of full quality streaming by t…

It's such a chain - even if a distributer didn't want to use DRM, the buck will stop with a lawyer for the content owners who's job it is to do everything in their power to make sure their clients get paid for the content. Why would one of those make it easier to pirate?

Corporate drone logic man.

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

#105

Post by orliesaurus »

toun wrote: post #94
orliesaurus wrote: post #73

Surely some people just use screen recording software for the "Download" illegally part?

This usually doesn't work because of HDCP, and you'd have to reencode the video stream, sacrificing quality. Removing DRMs is a lot cleaner.

Makes sense, and I know a lot of people are like "4K ultra or nada" but I grew up in a world where 480p was watchable and good enough that you would invite friend over and have a freewatch party. So I guess it depends who is watching right?

I tried a couple of screen recording tricks and it appears that Netflix is easily captured on Chrome....

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

#106

Post by widevinedump »

An IPFS Mirror of all the repos of the GitHub account.

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmWPo4VqWwrdU3A7fm9Ze3Qm31D...

For example: ``` git clone http://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmWPo4VqWwrdU3A7fm9Ze3Qm31DH... ```

To pin and help seed on your local IPFS node ``` ipfs pin add /ipfs/QmWPo4VqWwrdU3A7fm9Ze3Qm31DHBz4bZPNeFPojS8huSg ``` Cloudflare IPFS can be replaced with other ipfs nodes like dweb.link or your local one.

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

#107

Post by 323 »

ordx wrote: post #11
alt227 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is, but the resulting files are encrypted. Hence this post being about exposing CDMs (Content Decryption Modules). These use decryption keys obtained through hacking or paying internal staff. Once the decryption keys are exposed like this then the content providers 'burn'; them and generate new ones meaning the process has to start over again.

I assume at some point Widevine plugin decrypts these files to display the actual video stream in the browser, correct? Why don't they capture already decrypted stream?

It depends. Today there are APIs which allow the actual decryption to be done directly on the GPU, while requesting the GPU to not allow the sharing/capturing of those decrypted images.

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

#109

Post by tomxor »

alufers wrote: post #100

Can we just stop the shitshow with DRM? I have NEVER encountered a TV show/movie that I could't rip using a torrent either on public p2p sites or a private tracker. But I have seen a lot of my non-technical friends and family having a degraded experience, who pay for their streaming services every month. It was either because they were using a browser or device which was deemed unworthy of full quality streaming by t…

Yeah, I don't know in what world DRM is supposed to stop people ripping stuff, it only seems to hurt paying users, ultimately if it comes out of a screen you can always capture the output, no amount of DRM will ever prevent this so why bother .

The irony is that as a Linux user (only SD for us), and a user with poor internet and thus shitty streaming speed, DRM pushes me towards torrenting everything I "buy" from these platforms anyway, just for the privileged of being able to watch what i'm paying for without being a blurry over-compressed mess, without having my device rooted by a third party, and not needing to be blessed with a consistent high speed internet connection.

I've said it before, torrenting today is as good as the experience of buying music on a physical medium in the 90s... you bought it, took it home, and played it in fully quality uninterrupted, END OF STORY. streaming services still haven't matched this experience.

Re: "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

#110

Post by boardwaalk »

ramraj07 wrote: post #90
specialist wrote: post #44

I just want to control the viewing experience, not hoard warez. Effortless rewind, skip filler (car chases, sex), play at x1.25 speed, etc. aka the "Blu-Ray experience". If that means I gotta bypass the DRM and download, so be it. -- Some shows have my complete rapt attention. I'll keenly watch (and rewatch) every single frame. Like Netflix's Maniac. OMG. So frikkin good. (So many other examples.) Other shows, especi…

Who the hell skips car chases? What movie had a car chase that you wanted to skip that made that movie more watchable (this sentence applies to the furious films as well, skipping the chase scenes there gives you the dumbest drama of all time).

Car chases are often filler like action scenes in general are filler, IMO.

It's not universally true and depends on how consequential the scenes are. If you could flash "" instead and not miss much, I don't want it.

Movies with top, top notch action and/or better integrated action are exceptions. The original Matrix, John Wick movies, Baby Driver, The Italian Job, Mission Impossible, etc.

Superhero movies are usually not (it feels like they paste the drama and the action together in editing and it's dreadful).

> (this sentence applies to the furious films as well, skipping the chase scenes there gives you the dumbest drama of all time)

Well, yes, and I don't watch those movies :d.

(I don't actually skip these car chases, but I do often zone out.)

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