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You connected the player to another player and copied it.
That typically didn't work very well, as there was crude anti-copying tech in most VHS consumer machines.
as a child I knew a guy that knew how to make the recording VCR record those properly, though I don't know how it was done.
One 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).
The quality was locked to an eye watering...360P! On Windows 10 with a modern HDCP compliant display and GPU no less!
Is it still "piracy" if you pay for the service, but torrent the video in question in higher quality?
I for one thank our piracy overlords who endlessly work to make every form of content (optionally) freely available in high quality. I pay for plenty of subscription services that finally figured out how to make content as easy and accessible as piracy but there will forever exist legitimate gaps where “just pay for it” is simply insufficient (geo being #1, silly copyright owners #2, etc etc). The other article menti…
Amazon and Apple lure you in but many shows it seems need to be rented or bought. How much disposable income do these companies think the average Joe has to spend? the answer seems to be $10 to $20 to rent or "buy" movies. Which you never own a physical copy of. They seem to be out of touch with reality.
What is the CDM mentioned in this description? https://github.com/widevinedump/WV-AMZN-4K-RIPPER They mention you can email for the CDM and it's not free. Disney is the same.
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You connected the player to another player and copied it.
That typically didn't work very well, as there was crude anti-copying tech in most VHS consumer machines.
By the way this worked just as well for audio cassettes tape.
Why is it possible to pirate 4k content from these sites but not simply view 4k officially on my mac? (disney+ in particular)
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no, it's the motivation, not the reason. the reason why linux users get lower bitrate versions of media is that companies with a bit too much power decided to try to abuse the entirety of the PC world in order to slow the efforts of a very few pirates. it's a stupid untenable unwinnable arms-race that only results in poorer user experience and less and less user-liberty and choice across the board in order to slightl…
drm is not to control piracy but to control legitimate ownership.
In practice, DRM never has a good reason.
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That typically didn't work very well, as there was crude anti-copying tech in most VHS consumer machines.
Ah yes, crude indeed. We used to cut a small piece of payer, around an inch. Then fold it into a little square and place it inside that little empty square space on the front of the cassette tape. That's all it took to subvert it. By the way this worked just as well for audio cassettes tape.
Any suggestions for downloading the playlists from Spotify?