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> I was treated like a criminal when legitimately buying media years ago. What happened?
> What happened? Isn't that obvious? Circumventing the copy protection of your own property is a crime.
Not obvious, sorry.
The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
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#142Many judge success on this by "do i get 1080". I've found this to be incredibly deceptive for nix and DRM on netflix. My experience has been that even managing 1080 on a nix platform the experienced quality is substantially worse. Thoughout I was going insane, but checked bitrate and sure enough netflix at 1080 was streaming at much lower rate than on windows 1080.
Would changing the user agent to a Windows release of Chrome make any difference?
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
In terms of freedom of using compute devices, RMS has a point. In terms of freedom of using media, I'm less annoyed by Spotify or Netflix than I am by "purchases" of media that have DRM. It's clear that one is renting with the streaming services, but Amazon can revoke permission for me to read books I have purchased or Valve can revoke permission for me to play games I have purchased, we are truly living in a dystopi…
Instead of “buy”, they should be labeled “rentals - as long as provider exists or chooses to give you access”.
When have you ever been able to buy software? I thought in most cases you just buy a license to use the software or the license says it’s free for X types of uses or sometimes “free for everyone”.
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#144The target site is intermittently experiencing the HN Hug of Death, so if you have trouble accessing it, here's an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230309144317/https://www.da.vi...
The link in the webarchive pointing to the gist of the script is wrong, for what ever reason (at least the name of the script is completly different). This is the correct gist: https://gist.github.com/DavidBuchanan314/c6b97add51b97e4c3ee...
It's the same script, just an earlier revision.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know we had that, they called it HDCP. It continues to frustrate users of beamers and what not today, despite the root key being leaked for many years now. Even before the key leak, it never did anything to stop shows appearing as torrents on day one. It will never work, if pirates have to replace the TV panel with an FPGA, they will happily do so.
> It will never work, if pirates have to replace the TV panel with an FPGA, they will happily do so. Evidence does appear to point to you being right, but I really wonder just who is going to these lengths to pirate things for other people? A significant investment of time and money, from highly a highly skilled individual, for... bragging rights? Is there some financial motive I'm unaware of?
I don't think it's that weird. People do stuff for free for a better all the time.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Full stack protection from decoder the screen is coming. IIRC you can only play 4k Netflix on a smart TV which controls the entire stack from network to pixels
You know we had that, they called it HDCP. It continues to frustrate users of beamers and what not today, despite the root key being leaked for many years now. Even before the key leak, it never did anything to stop shows appearing as torrents on day one. It will never work, if pirates have to replace the TV panel with an FPGA, they will happily do so.
FYI, the German word "beamer" is a 'false' anglicism. The English translation is (video) projector.
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#147Widevine has been privately cracked/bypassed. The method hasn't been made public as it would obviously get patched rather quickly (if it even can be patched). That's why Netflix content is available almost immediately on any decent tracker. The quality would not look nearly as good if it was grabbed using a capture card. Like others have mentioned, it's security theater for the content owners who most likely require…
Why would a capture card look any worse? Isn't it capturing lossless video output? Just because of the re-encode?
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#148The mere existence of Widevine is a mystery for me. How sensible for Netflix is to invest into DRM at all? It's not a gamedev situation, where DRM lasts long enough to make impact on initial sales. Pirated Netflix shows appear on the torrents same day, and unless they have full-stack protection from the decoder to the screen, not much can be done. They seem to make user experience worse for nothing.
The point is to make the Netflix experience better for the average person than the experience of using a pirated source. And - IMHO - it works. I used to use Bittorrent quite a lot. There was a bunch of US shows I watched that were unavailable in Australia and so I had a pretty decent setup where things would automatically download when torrents were posted. Life happened, I stopped using it and haven't really tried…
Google the arr stack + Plex. Should give you your own personal Netflix without much work, or so I heard...
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure it's probably a requirement from all the 3rd party media companies. They didn't seem to like VPNs either. But I also wouldn't be surprised if Netflix wants it to keep high quality versions at least off pirate sites.
4k rips land on usenet super quickly though and they're excellent quality. HDCP is already easily bypassed at this point.
But probably re-encodes, so filesizes are bigger for close enough quality. A direct crack of the encryption would be best from a space-quality perspective.
Doesn’t really matter much though in most of the world as it used to though.
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#150> I don't care very much about Netflix - the UX offered by BitTorrent is superior What a laughable statement. I'll copy paste all of his blogspots on my blog and say I prefer the UX of my blog.
I don't get that either. I would love a detailed description of the process to get BitTorrent to fully replace Netflix - though I suppose this description wont be public for legal reasons