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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 dijit »

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…

> aka the "Blu-Ray experience"

Have you actually used blu-ray or are you thinking about DVDs (and Blu-rays are a natural evolution in your mind?)

Because, honestly, Blu-rays are atrocious.

Every so often I actually buy a BluRay, not only to support the work but also because in the case of losing internet (but not power) I'd like to watch a small selection of carefully curated movies.

I was in such a position 2 years ago, I had moved home and the internet had not yet been installed.

Did you know that in order to play blurays on the Playstation 4 (a Sony product, where Sony is also the maker of the BluRay spec and it was even a Sony movie!) that the device must be connected to the internet to play bluray's?? I didn't.. that was a shock.

So I took to Linux, which... just couldn't play it...

Why?

The DRM keys could not be installed along with VLC (or something), after googling for half a day on my phones 4G to figure it out I ended up not significantly wiser and realised I'd been hoarding a bunch of useless plastic.

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

#132

Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

antihero wrote: post #104
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.

Because they can sell more views if paying customers are happy.

I refuse to pay for Netflix because even if paid I wouldn't be able to watch the content (including Netflix originals where the "rightsholders don't allow it" argument doesn't make much sense) in reasonable quality.

Meanwhile, people can watch it from an unlicensed source without paying (legality varies by country but generally low risk for users), and as long as adblock works, the experience really isn't much worse than with Netflix.

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

#133

Post by Unklejoe »

For a while, there were HDMI splitters for sale on Amazon that would effectively strip out HDCP 2.2. I haven't checked in a while, but I bet that's still the case.

It seems like these DRM efforts are futile, but then I remember that it's really just about keeping piracy outside of the grasp of "common folks". They will never be able to stop piracy if someone is determined enough.

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

#134

Post by kuroguro »

agilob wrote: post #97
bogwog wrote: post #88

> Hi! My name is WVDUMP. I am Leaking the CDM to burn it & punish few idiots that think themselves as dicord lords :smile: Why do so many people doing illegal/shady shit online use Discord? You might as well be using Facebook at the point.

Before Discord they were using IRC which was printing your IP address (or reverse DNS) when joining a channel.

IIRC quite a few botnets used to use public IRC channels as C2 servers (also a pretty bad idea).

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

#135

Post by tyingq »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #130
tyingq wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine it's windows only because widevine on Linux is crippled for many services, like HBO Max.

well if the utility is merely breaking encryption on the url, it shouldn't matter what the host is? right?

Ah, perhaps. I didn't look to see how it works, if it requires the widevine binaries, certificates that come with it, etc.

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

#136

Post by dijit »

hatware wrote: post #112
londons_explore wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These people probably all have day school... I think most people who get past school age tend to retire out of this crowd of people...

Are you implying that young adults are more responsible for the state of piracy today than adults? I don't see that at all.

I feel like I have to defend the parent here. My experience in the nulling/warez/pirating community is that it tends to be young adults doing the majority of the work and mostly they do it for kudos and not monetary benefit.

Adults might be giving them the kudos, but the hard work (again, in my experience) is young adults, of school age.

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

#137

Post by vmception »

tomc1985 wrote: post #75
jrm4 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Making an imaginary-ish copy that stays on the big Microsoft-owned system is mostly unnecessary and probably not enough to keep it around, make sure you save a copy on your own computer that they can't get to." Don't want to be (too) condescending, but, as an old-timer it's kind of wild to me that people who work with tech a lot do actually sometimes need to be reminded of this.

"Cloud-native" youth seem to have forgotten a huge chunk of computing

Did you see this gem the other day?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29668260

I'm still not convinced it wasn't a troll thread. Its like its either a troll, or a coding academy class just graduated alongside a bunch of self-starters that made "coding" their pandemic project, where some popular TikTok content creator must be telling people to hang out on hackernews.

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

#138

Post by mindslight »

rsync wrote: post #116
tyingq wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

#!/usr/bin/env bash API_URL="https://api.github.com/users/widevinedump/repos" for url in $(curl -s $API_URL | jq -r '.[].html_url') do echo "Cloning: $url" git clone $url done

If I wanted to save an important repo, I would run a command like this: ssh user@rsync.net "git clone --mirror https://github.com/widevindump/Netlix-4K-Script github/2021-12-27-widevindump_Netlix-4K-Script" ... which works because the 'git' binary is maintained on rsync.net and can be executed over ssh[1]. [1] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/git.html

I'd delete this comment if I were you. The copyright cartels have ended lives for less.

edit: I tried to keep it simple so that a null-edit would suffice to scrub the comment in question. But since I have to explain - the author runs the service for which they're providing instructions. This creates a straightforward argument that they intend their service to be used for storing forbidden files. Such "contributory infringement" is exactly how the copyright cartels have gone after youtube-dl, Popcorn Time, and many other general tools.

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

#139

Post by specialist »

dijit wrote: post #131
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…

> aka the "Blu-Ray experience" Have you actually used blu-ray or are you thinking about DVDs (and Blu-rays are a natural evolution in your mind?) Because, honestly, Blu-rays are atrocious. Every so often I actually buy a BluRay, not only to support the work but also because in the case of losing internet (but not power) I'd like to watch a small selection of carefully curated movies. I was in such a position 2 years…

Busted. I conflated the two. Apart from the FBI warning and goofy one-off menus, I mostly loved DVDs.

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

#140

Post by pm215 »

dijit wrote: post #131
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…

> aka the "Blu-Ray experience" Have you actually used blu-ray or are you thinking about DVDs (and Blu-rays are a natural evolution in your mind?) Because, honestly, Blu-rays are atrocious. Every so often I actually buy a BluRay, not only to support the work but also because in the case of losing internet (but not power) I'd like to watch a small selection of carefully curated movies. I was in such a position 2 years…

Thanks for the heads-up about ps4 bluray playing. Apparently (assuming reddit posts to be correct) the internet requirement is a one-time thing where it downloads codecs, and Sony is supposedly doing it this way so they only pay the codec licensing fee for ps4s whose owners ever actually play a bluray rather than for ever ps4 ever shipped. So I'll make sure to do a test bluray play and then fingers crossed if I want to watch something in future when the internet is out it will work...
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