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[–] [email protected] 169 points 1 year ago (3 children)

TL;DW - he needs reference screen grabs to make his screen accurate props, but lately in browser DRM has been making it harder and harder to take screenshots (specifically using a Mac on Amazon streaming service). So if he gets frustrated enough, he'll just torrent a HQ copy and use that instead.

DRM is making it annoying for everyone, and you never own anything if you don't have an unrestricted local copy.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I absolutely hate this trend. If my eyeballs can see it, the camera on my phone can. Or a cheap HDMI capture card with a leaked HDCP key. They just want to screw over non-techie people who don't know about these workarounds.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I just learned about HDCP. What if you have display without HDCP support? This just sounds like a stupid idea.

Edit: Apparently laptops and computers should have that too. Is there any way I can test it on demand?

Edit 2: Intel just discontinued HDCP on Linux at start of this year.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

That depends on the software in question, but generally it will play a degraded version of the content.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The vast majority of people are non-techies, and that’s quite profitable.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox doesn't black out the screen on windows like Chrome does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It depends. Turn of hardware acceleration in firefox or chrome. Works on both. Screen should be screenshot/recordable again.

[–] JackbyDev 12 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure this is why Hue Sync (matches lights to the screen) doesn't work on desktop and the hardware accessory for it is so expensive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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