It's hilarious to imagine the meeting where they finally convinced themselves they could put worthwhile lasting encryption in consumer devices with a 10 year+ installation lifetime.
What a complete and total waste of effort.
What a complete and total waste of effort.
It's a legal hurdle, not a technical one that prevents the 'above the board' software suppliers from adding this feature.
Pirates clearly are able to extract the 4K video and upload them to torrent sites, but the average media consumer would rather pay a netflix subscription fee that deal with the shady underworld of those sites with the virus installing and crypto mining popups, warning letters from your ISP, etc.
They've managed to make it hard enough that the number of people that do it is insignificant to their bottom line.
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Modern games console security shows you can easily build DRM that lasts 10+ years. Xbox One came out in 2013 and was never properly breached during its entire lifecycle, Xbox X/S replaced it and have also not been breached. Microsoft figured out how to make strong DRM ~15 years ago on devices they design and manufacture. There's nothing wasted about that effort given that it lets them subsidize the console costs and block cheating.