I’m just surprised this hasn’t already happened already…

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    22 days ago

    I already just use screen capture recording to take videos in my desktop playing YouTube on a browser. Could they even stop that?

    • I mean that’s what DRM stops…

      You can’t record it, its just a blackscreen…

      You can try it. Or Try asking a friend/relative to screenrecord their netflix… its just black

      I mean unless you literally take out a camera to record it… but then the video quality degrades since you aren’t gonna get a 1:1 from making a videotape of a screen.

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        22 days ago

        From a quick google search, seems like you can disable hardware acceleration to record with OBS. Or you can use other dedicated software. And thats not even covering the bypasses that can likely be done on Linux

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          21 days ago

          To add, you could always capture via the output video too, regardless of the DRM nonsense. Once it leaves the device in a format a display can present it, any device that can utilize that signal can record it.

          There’s always a million ways to skin the cat.

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            21 days ago

            This is what i figured, so long as you can output to a generic non drm enabled monitor like a VGA, you can just feed it back into a digital capture device. It might take some work / bandwidth to do it much faster than 1:1 time, but it just needs one person to do it once. In likelihood there’s a software way to do it perhaps with the right hacks to a display driver.

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        21 days ago

        It is often the graphics hardware blocking it in this case… disabling hardware decoding in the browser may ‘help’, if your CPU can handle it (you can still use hardware encoding, tho)

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        22 days ago

        Netflix being an application that is running on a TV seems like a very different situation than a video playing inside of a browser. How exactly would YouTube know or be able to stop screen recording short of forcing me to actively run a program?

        • idk how they do it, but browsers have DRM built right into it, you can play a stream from netflix but if you try to record it, its just a blackscreen…

          Youtube could implement the same thing… I mean Google literally made Widewine

          Also, apparantly you also need Secure Boot and TPM enabled to get the full HD content, otherwise it runs on Widewine L3 instead which only displays content in Standard Definition… not HD.