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
They can DRM and engineer all they want but nobody can stop me from recording what's playing on my screen :D
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?
Of course it is. Whenever you have these question, just ask what you think a mustache twirling characture of a villain would do and you will have your answer.
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 slightly inconvenience a few bad actors, not stop them.
Meanwhile a 10 dollar video dongle setup and a pirated Windows copy will easily meet most DRM requirements and still allow for easy piracy.
These efforts (DRM schemes) are useless and anti-human, and most research from the 90s until now indicates that DRM enforcement does little for profit except for those that sell DRM solutions -- and that piracy increases social effect of released media; generally aiding sales and profitability.
In practice, DRM never has a good reason.