You don't really need Google for this.
You don't really need Google for this.
... and then get sued for illegally calling a few exported methods on a shared library you freely downloaded from the internet (but without first obtaining a license from Google!).
And by the way, I wasn't kidding about the freely downloadable from the internet part, when you open Netflix in Firefox, the browser downloads and loads a shared library from a Google domain: https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/${WIDEVINE_VERSION}-linux...
As per https://gist.github.com/ruario/3c873d43eb20553d5014bd4d29fe3..., which is still used by certain browsers and unofficial clients like the inputstream kodi extension to play netflix videos. If you're on arm, an entire chrome OS image is downloaded instead, extracting the compiled widevine shared library.
Also I'd encourage you to contact the owners of the repositories listed in Google's DMCA notice against the Widevine cryptographic key and help them file a counter-notice. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-0...