Even before these tools doesn't really seem to affect the pirates. The rips on pirate sites (not that I've watched them!) are pretty flawless and they're out very quickly after the initial release to the streaming site.
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#12One of the best layman hacks to rip all these services is still using ffmpeg/sse with Xvfb. They can DRM and engineer all they want but nobody can stop me from recording what's playing on my screen :D
If you try and screenshot or use something like OBS on Windows you just get a black box on top of the media content. Is that not the case using that solution?
There is no protected media path on Linux. It always works there.
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#13Interesting, I think Kanopy uses widevine as well. How long will this last now that it has been posted to HN?
The L1 device key they posted was already revoked earlier today. The tools themselves might continue to work for a while longer with an appropriate non-revoked key depending on how much services want to change up their APIs.
I can't see them changing up their APIs in any meaningful way. It'd seem kind of pointless to me. At the end of the day, if you're exposing something on the internet, then it won't take a huge amount of time for people to reverse engineer how web clients interact with the server.
Main game should be rotating the L1 keys. I don't know about L2 keys, but rotating L3 keys seems like a lost cause to me, some dude made a Chrome extension that can extract them.
Some theorise that Microsoft's Pluton/TPM antics with Windows 11 are a ploy to bring L1-style keys to the desktop.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/317512-microsoft-pluto...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16269/microsoft-pluton-hardwa...
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#14Interesting, I think Kanopy uses widevine as well. How long will this last now that it has been posted to HN?
The L1 device key they posted was already revoked earlier today. The tools themselves might continue to work for a while longer with an appropriate non-revoked key depending on how much services want to change up their APIs.
Widevine is completely broken ever since Nvidia Tegra devices were irreparably compromised due to a boot ROM bug. You can just pull the L1 key from any one of them, and Google can't mass revoke the entire device class since it would screw over a ton of legitimate users.
(I don't know the details of how to dump the keys, I just know it's possible by definition given the security loss on that platform, and I'm sure some people have tooling for this somewhere)
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#15One of the best layman hacks to rip all these services is still using ffmpeg/sse with Xvfb. They can DRM and engineer all they want but nobody can stop me from recording what's playing on my screen :D
If you try and screenshot or use something like OBS on Windows you just get a black box on top of the media content. Is that not the case using that solution?
HDMI splitter to a capture card solves this as well.
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#17Even before these tools doesn't really seem to affect the pirates. The rips on pirate sites (not that I've watched them!) are pretty flawless and they're out very quickly after the initial release to the streaming site.
AIUI, these (or similar) tools were used by some of the piracy groups, but never made public to avoid the keys being revoked.
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#18One of the best layman hacks to rip all these services is still using ffmpeg/sse with Xvfb. They can DRM and engineer all they want but nobody can stop me from recording what's playing on my screen :D
But services limit quality on Linux (due to not having a high-enough DRM level).
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#19Cloning these and saving for later. Knowing GH’s past (ie, youtube-dl), these won’t stay up for long.
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#20Even before these tools doesn't really seem to affect the pirates. The rips on pirate sites (not that I've watched them!) are pretty flawless and they're out very quickly after the initial release to the streaming site.
AIUI, these (or similar) tools were used by some of the piracy groups, but never made public to avoid the keys being revoked.
You can release the tools without the keys. That way, anyone can get the tool, and anyone with a valid key can use the tool.