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• melfie@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, I think Netflix has like a few thousand movies and a couple thousand TV shows, and some of us here have similarly sized Jellyfin libraries. On the other hand, YouTube has billions of videos. It seems DRM would be a significantly more difficult and costly problem for YouTube.

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• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  DRM is expensive. Very expensive in fact because it is basically non-trivial encryption.

  A website with as much traffic as YouTube cannot afford to DRM every single video stream. There just isn’t enough processing power and electricity available.

  Netflix et al. have a tiny fraction of YouTube’s traffic with more income per user due to subscriptions.

  Plus YouTube’s storage demands are many orders of magnitude larger. A maximum upper bound for Netflix is 1 PB I’d imagine. Archiveteam alone has selectively downloaded more than 3 PB. YouTube has, I’d imagine, a double digit exabyte amount of data stored + backups.

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  • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And yet, youtube uses resource intensive compression methods for said exabytes

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• DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Whatever the latest version of HDCP is, sure.

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  • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was actually thinking of DisplayPort since I haven’t used HDMI for quite some time now, but pretty mich the same thing, except for name - DPCP, but supposedly DP also supports HDCP.

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