> Linux is explicitly on their radar. What do you think Android or Chromebooks are?
Android and Chromebooks don't intrinsically get you the content either. They just tend to run on hardware that's supported or include closed source components for big chunks of their graphics systems and management engines including chains of trust that are signed as being the code the other sections expect.
The average desktop Linux system has no interest in that, so it doesn't happen.
I haven't kept up with the scene but as long as set top boxes & sticks exist, can't you just buy a $10 HDCP decoder on eBay and re-compress with minimal loss?
> Widevine is a proprietary digital rights management (DRM) technology provider used by Google Chrome and Firefox web browsers (and some of its derivates), Android MediaDRM, Android TV, and other consumer electronics devices. Widevine Technologies was purchased by Google in 2010
> All Widevine browser-based integrations (platforms and applications) must support VMP. VMP support is NOT available for Linux platforms.
Previously did some work with DRM streaming video hitting (MS) Playready, (Google) Widevine, (Apple) Fairplay. Google's Widevine was the out standing issue for server side ARM support. Google's products are the software equivalent of throwing half a bucket of paint at a large wall, not fully covering it, then saying the wall is painted; followed by ignoring any issues.
Huh? The vast, vast majority of Widevine streaming is done to ARM devices - Qualcomm and Exynos chips for Android, which have a verified media path in hardware.
In your retarded bud for supremacy you completely managed to ignore the issue. I know linux has a lot of stakeholders now but as a user, I hope your toxic kind does (in terms of tech presence) so I can have nice people making my linux and nice features.
I don't really get the melodrama of most of the top comments in that the old thread nor the current headline. Everyone is bemoaning how this is what drives people to piracy... but does Chrome not work anymore? Is the bar for resorting to piracy that low? It's hard to feel sympathetic when the starting position is presented as "It's broken, we've been forsaken!" but then on inspection it turns out to really be a case of "It doesn't work in a way that fits our politics, we've been forsaken!" I get that there's a lot of idealism in play but the histrionics just make the author and the community look dishonest.
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Problem solved for the Linux crowd.
Android and Chromebooks don't intrinsically get you the content either. They just tend to run on hardware that's supported or include closed source components for big chunks of their graphics systems and management engines including chains of trust that are signed as being the code the other sections expect.
The average desktop Linux system has no interest in that, so it doesn't happen.
Yet again, Google as the root issue:
from https://www.widevine.com/news (April 01 '20)
> All Widevine browser-based integrations (platforms and applications) must support VMP. VMP support is NOT available for Linux platforms.
Previously did some work with DRM streaming video hitting (MS) Playready, (Google) Widevine, (Apple) Fairplay. Google's Widevine was the out standing issue for server side ARM support. Google's products are the software equivalent of throwing half a bucket of paint at a large wall, not fully covering it, then saying the wall is painted; followed by ignoring any issues.
(I would say owner, but clearly purchasing a phone does not grant full ownership.)