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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 marcodiego »

CorrectHorseBat wrote: post #252
marcodiego wrote: post #185

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Among other things, they remove competition.

Where and how? Removing competition among distributors? media producers? manufacturers? The only place where I could see it reduce competition is manufacturers sure, but why would media producers want to reduce competition there? I think it's media producers refusing to accept they can't stop pirating and manufacturers making use of that to sell them stuff. In the end it's only the manufacturers who make money from D…

Remove competition among manufacturers because nobody can legally build and sell a compatible player without the key's owner permission.

Remove competition among distributors because media producers can refuse giving permission to distribute their media without agreeing to whatever terms they impose.

Remove competition among media distributors by creating silos of content where you can't find one or another title. Today, if you want to have reasonable access to media, you'll have to sign more than one stream service; compare this to how you could go to a rental store 15 years ago and choose media from many different producers.

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Post by dontreact »

_fn2y wrote: post #201

I did one of these for Hulu ( https://github.com/chris124567/hulu ) a while back. It didn't take very long to write. Most of these programs are just using the pywidevine library along with some key that's been leaked (if you know how to navigate Github search you can find one in a couple of minutes) and then integrating the streaming site's API. I wrote mine in Go because I got sick of the pywidevine hegemony and I f…

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Post by marcodiego »

CorrectHorseBat wrote: post #181
marcodiego wrote: post #157

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Giant media conglomerate says to Big distributor: - Hi distributor! Do you want to distribute our content? You just have to make sure players will have this list of anti-features. Big distributor says to manufacturer: - Hi manufacturer! Do you want to play the content we distrubute? You just have to make sure your TV's will have this list of anti-features. And here we are.

But what are they gaining from that?

Some of it was discussed a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7751110

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Post by acomjean »

dontreact wrote: post #262
_fn2y wrote: post #201

I did one of these for Hulu ( https://github.com/chris124567/hulu ) a while back. It didn't take very long to write. Most of these programs are just using the pywidevine library along with some key that's been leaked (if you know how to navigate Github search you can find one in a couple of minutes) and then integrating the streaming site's API. I wrote mine in Go because I got sick of the pywidevine hegemony and I f…

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I'm not exactly sure how this works, it seems you need to have to have a hulu subscriptions, which means you are paying for the content.

From the instructions "Note: Ensure you are signed in before following these steps." You are just able to download the video/ You'll at that point likely watch it once and then not watch it again.

But sometimes when your traveling and you don't have internet and you want to watch something, this is useful. I mean if you got the video files through someother DRM free site, you wouldn't have these restrictions at all and you wouldn't be paying at all. Then you could argue you are consuming without compensating the creators, which I think wouldn't be right.

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Post by Sunspark »

hatware wrote: post #247
betterunix2 wrote: post #180

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George Hotz (geohot) was a teenager when he cracked the iPhone and was 20 when he cracked the PS3. So...yes, young adults certainly can extract keys if they have the time and motivation, and being young adults they often have plenty of time on their hands.

Using George Hotz as an example is pretty disingenuous. He is clearly not your average young adult, even for the average of HN.

That was some funny stuff. Watching this guy make Sony freak out and chase after him down the street with lawyers. Halt varlet, for I shalt sue!

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Post by extra88 »

acomjean wrote: post #264
dontreact wrote: post #262

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I'm not exactly sure how this works, it seems you need to have to have a hulu subscriptions, which means you are paying for the content. From the instructions "Note: Ensure you are signed in before following these steps." You are just able to download the video/ You'll at that point likely watch it once and then not watch it again. But sometimes when your traveling and you don't have internet and you want to watch so…

> when your traveling and you don't have internet and you want to watch something

Hulu and a number of other streaming services have a download feature for exactly this situation.

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Post by arsome »

extra88 wrote: post #266
acomjean wrote: post #264

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I'm not exactly sure how this works, it seems you need to have to have a hulu subscriptions, which means you are paying for the content. From the instructions "Note: Ensure you are signed in before following these steps." You are just able to download the video/ You'll at that point likely watch it once and then not watch it again. But sometimes when your traveling and you don't have internet and you want to watch so…

> when your traveling and you don't have internet and you want to watch something Hulu and a number of other streaming services have a download feature for exactly this situation.

In my experience the download services have weird time limits and are pretty crappy, I'd rather just have the content on my Plex server.

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Post by arsome »

jorvi wrote: post #236
Commodore63 wrote: post #200

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It was definitely the case for me! I aged out of warez when I got a full time job.

I think the warez ‘golden age’ was 1995-2015. Before that most of the protections were just not that severe (and thus interesting), and after 2015 Steam, Netflix and Spotify severely stemmed the influx of people being exposed to piracy and thus potentially going deeper into the culture. Tangentially related but I think that’s also why in a strange way the advent of the smartphone and other ‘curated technological expe…

Yeah, I think software piracy was a huge part of technological learning for me from an early age, figuring out how to the name of what I was even looking for (cracks, Warez), using astalavista, early torrent clients, forwarding ports, finding good torrents, using a firewall to block applications, applying cracks, learning about loaders, key generators, patches, protectors, and later reverse engineering and cracking software myself... staring at assembly in IDA for a few days straight so you can do something no one else online has done is a pretty interesting experience and probably one of the most formative ones to my enjoyment of computing.

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Post by arsome »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #29
sovietmudkipz wrote: post #10

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I don’t know why but for some reason I was hopeful to see unit tests in any of the repos. Searching “test” for that user doesn’t reveal any tests. :( Even the digital property liberators/internet pirates don’t test their software. I feel like I’m on an island with a small population of test enthusiasts.

There's no point I guess, this kind of thing does not work for very long anyway. Because it gets blocked server side once it's out. It's more like a proof of concept than production code.

In this case, not so much, they block individual CDMs as they get leaked, but if you dump your own or find/purchase a non-public one, you're off to the races. They don't change the basic software APIs or crypto occurring.

However when it comes to something like this, it pretty much works or it doesn't and it'll be obvious one way or another when you run it. Writing unit tests for that is probably of limited value.

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Post by Farbklex »

extra88 wrote: post #266
acomjean wrote: post #264

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I'm not exactly sure how this works, it seems you need to have to have a hulu subscriptions, which means you are paying for the content. From the instructions "Note: Ensure you are signed in before following these steps." You are just able to download the video/ You'll at that point likely watch it once and then not watch it again. But sometimes when your traveling and you don't have internet and you want to watch so…

> when your traveling and you don't have internet and you want to watch something Hulu and a number of other streaming services have a download feature for exactly this situation.

The download features are super limited.

- Downloaded something in country A and want to watch while in country B? Sorry, the content is not available in your region. Want to watch it via VPN? Sorry, we detected that you are connected via a VPN (had exactly those two issues with Amazon Prime Video).

- Even if content is available in another region, some language options are not available anymore (you are in Russia? Now you can only choose English an Russian).

- Some titles are not available for download and can only be streamed

- Downloads require you to use the app. Not all devices have the app. E.g. you can't download movies on a Macbook because there is no Mac Netflix App. However you can do it on Android, Windows and iOS. I am forced to watch content on my Android phone instead of the bigger Macbook screen when traveling.

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