there's significant cost to the pirates for those widevine L1 keys. i.e. they sacrifice device after device as the keys get killed. It's much easier for netflix, amazon to blacklist an L1 key than it is to blacklist L3 keys (its almost pointless to do that from a piracy prevention perspective)
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Re: Hardware DRM is broken too
Date: 2025-01-02 08:19 pm (UTC)