It really debunks that myth that open source software could ever handle the strong encryption that's so desperately needed to protect new movies and TV shows from showing up on The Pirate Bay.
I for one welcome this cogent and secure technological response to a market issue.
These services are not successful because of exclusivity, but because of convenience, feature richness, legality, speed of access... in other words they are worth the price.
It's important to be aware of this: the media streaming landscape becoming more and more fragmented directly impacts the most important reason why people are paying for these (convenience), which could lead to a harsh reality check for production companies.
You need to define 'victory' in a proper manner.
Businesspeople don't really care if some lone hacker in some forsaken internet forum broke their DRM. They don't need to fulfill the perfect technical victory condition. So long as they've limited the use of the devices for nearly all users for the commercial lifespan of the device*, and (most importantly) so long they think they make more money than without, they've won as far as they're concerned.
Their criteria is far more realistic and relevant to the world at large than the technical 'never ever get hacked' criteria. There's a good argument that perfect protection (if it were possible) would actually be counterproductive to the bottom line.
* Just look at how general computing has been getting more and more restricted.
A) only allow movies to be played in theaters
B) watermark all content, and vigorously track down freeloaders based on the watermarks
You can still find most movies/TV/books/music for free on the open web as long as you use a search engine other than google.
> You are forgetting that DRM stopped all that piracy that bankrupted the movie industry. That's also why there were so few movies released in the last 15 months or so.
DRM didn't stop anything, and the movie industry is not bankrupt.
One could easily argue that there might be other reasons why few movies were released since the start of 2019.
> It really debunks that myth that open source software could ever handle the strong encryption that's so desperately needed to protect new movies and TV shows from showing up on The Pirate Bay.
The myth? Do you realize that literally every single web browser is built on an open source foundation? And how is decryption in the browser going to keep a determined person from grabbing the screen output or even grabbing the keys?
Remember, not your keys, not your lock.
> I for one welcome this cogent and secure technological response to a market issue.
Why would a technological response be appropriate for a market issue?
Without the protected path, how do you know that a malicious program doesn't use a low-level API to start a payment from your account without you noticing ?
2- You don't, but sandboxing should be enough to isolate untrustworthy apps from OS-level APIs that could do what you're afraid of.