Just wanna say that Spotify's DRM sucks. Plenty of scrapers out there.
I think it also shows that DRM is completely useless.
I know there're tools to record songs on Spotify that automatically splits and tags them. It just isn't as good as downloading directly from Deezer etc.
Yeah, DRM annoys paying customers but doesn't stop copies to appear online.
Soooo whats the point of this ? Is it supposed to stop you from pirating the content from their sites . If so how exatcly when you can just literaly record screen ? I honestly struggle to understand the purpose of this.
Well, it kind of depends on the exact type of DRM being used. But yeah, some types of streaming DRM can be circumvented with a screen capture, but these will always be worse quality. There are two types for movies and shows you'll see online when the source is a streaming site, either WEB-DL or WEB-Rip. WEB-Rip is sourced via a screen capture, I'm not super familiar, but there exists a standard called HDCP which is supposed to protect the content at the hardware/HDMI level. My understanding is this is largely ineffective as the HDCP master encryption keys have been in the public for quite some time. WEB-DL is when the raw video/audio is downloaded from the streaming provider and decrypted through some means, this is where defeating the browser-based (often Widevine) DRM often comes into play.
RDPing into another computer and capturing the video feed from the remote computer should work, though
I assumed it was the same DRM that Zoom uses, and the rdp method works for screen recording meetings.
I didn't think zoom had any DRM out of the box tbh, I've never had any issue screen recording a meeting on my Mac at least
But yeah any DRM video on the web will use widevine, so will have the same result of the blank rectangle if the DRM doesn't pass its checks
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Depending on your OS it should prevent screen recording. Maybe screen recording works depending on the DRM level.
The DRM prevents you from directly downloading the files. Similarly Spotify requires DRM so it's impossible to download songs.
Obviously if it's on your device there're ways to circumvent DRM, either by recording or having the right keys.
Most of the time it's the rightholders who demand copy prevention, even if it doesn't prevent copies but annoys customers if it fails.
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