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>will never work

As in it can't be secure? Well it's tied in with trusted computing, see this Widevine document:

https://storage.googleapis.com/wvdocs/Widevine_DRM_Architect...

If all of the decryption takes place in a "trusted zone" on "your" device, then it's pretty secure.

"Pretty secure" needs to be qualified though. Yes: there are DRM implementations without known holes. There is, however, no DRM protected content I'm aware of anywhere that doesn't exist in a high quality unprotected form somewhere indexed by TPB or wherever.

I mean: yes, average users can't crack their Netflix app. Everyone can still grab Stranger Things via torrent as soon as it drops. So does that count as "working?"

Those are known to be exploitable though...

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