Comment on What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads?

setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• azdle@news.idlestate.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes: en.wikipedia.org/…/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content…

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  • Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is different, and doesn’t address screen recording.

    HDCP uses three systems:[5]

    1. Authentication prevents non-licensed devices from receiving content.
    2. Encryption of the data sent over DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, GVIF, or UDI interfaces prevents eavesdropping of information and man-in-the-middle attacks.
    3. Key revocation prevents devices that have been compromised and cloned from receiving data.

    It would stop someone from playing DRM content to an unauthorized TV, but does not mention anything about screen recording your own device. There are some built in protections for preventing an application from being recorded but I have no doubt there are bypasses

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Maybe I’m not following but this seems to be talking about applications communicating with hardware designed to be authorized to play.

    How would a video playing on a browser like YouTube on my existing, old hardware be able to parse what’s authorized? Short of making YouTube a program on my computer, how does it on a browser know what else I’m running?

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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…

  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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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?

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    • verdigris@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The browsers implement the DRM protections. It will be black if you try to record.

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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…

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    • False@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You can also run Netflix in a browser

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  • Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nope

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean that’s what DRM stops…

    …and nobody wants that.

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Me: “I’m curious why this evil dictator hasn’t enacted his evil plans yet?”

      You: “Why do you support evil?”

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      • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        So what are you trying to tell?

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