>Why this restriction?
It depends on how secure your device is able to keep the decoded contents. The better the security the higher the quality they are willing to allow.
It depends on how secure your device is able to keep the decoded contents. The better the security the higher the quality they are willing to allow.
What is the benefit to the rights holder in having a “secure device”
The goal is to make it expensive for it to even make it to a pirate site. We will get to the point where it will require a new hardware exploit to be found for each show that gets cracked. As the industry gets better at security the price per exploit will go up to eventually not be economical to continue doing.
Since it is still the early days I think they are hesitant to ban every insecure device once one is discovered. This greatly decreased the cost for attackers.
>and a hdcp stripping device
Those only work with older versions of HDCP. Over time newer versions of HDCP will keep making the security better making it eventually impossible for an external splitter to work. No such splitter exists for HDCP 2.3 which came out 6 years ago.