• Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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      11 months ago

      whatever resolution I went out of my way to download.

      Addon Radarr, Sonarr, and Ombi and you won’t even have to do that.

      Users make requests via Ombi, those get sent to Radarr/Sonarr to search for and download. Most stuff is ready to watch ~15min after requesting, with no interaction from the servers admin needed. (optionally, requests can require approval before downloading, that’s disabled for the users I trust)

  • tobbue@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    It’s not even really better on Windows. (Nearly) all streaming services restrict resolution to 720p if you watch on a PC, mobile phone or tablet. With the exception of Netflix if you watch with Microsoft Edge or Chrome, I believe.

  • 𝖒𝖆𝖋@szmer.info
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    11 months ago

    This restriction is meant to protect high definition content from being ripped by pirates. Open systems don’t offer the same DRM guarantees as the locked ones.

    • edinbruh@feddit.it
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      11 months ago

      Which is bullshit because DRM doesn’t effectively prevent ripping (source: you can find pirated hd content). So it’s literally only harmful to the customer.

      I’ll give you a quick demo of how DRM is literally useless at protecting content:

      • You need:
        • a machine with any Nvidia GPU series 600 or newer running Windows, a browser with DRM support (e.g. chrome), and optionally sunshine. This is not an uncommon setup
        • any other machine that can run moonlight (even a phone).\
      • Services often use widevine as DRM provider, so using the Nvidia machine visit this test page and make sure DRM is working
      • Normally the DRM api ensure that the decrypted content of that video can never in any form get out of a special GPU buffer, not even the browser can access it
      • enable sunshine on the machine
      • Connect from the second machine to the using moonlight and notice that the video is not being shared. DRM seems to be working correctly.
      • Now disable sunshine and enable Nvidia gamestream from GeForce experience, and set it up to share the whole desktop
      • connect from the second machine to the first using moonlight
      • now the video is being shared to the second machine, and DRM is circumvented. There is literally nothing preventing you from recording the screen on the second machine

      Now, this is a terrible way of ripping content, it causes at least one reencoding, which reduces quality (a lot of people won’t even notice it), but it is a stupidly simple working demo of DRM circumvention.

      Btw, that procedure is not the result of some study, reverse engineering, or any clever stuff. I was literally playing a game in streaming and I went “hmm, I wonder what would happen if I streamed widevine” and it just worked.

      • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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        11 months ago

        What do you know, I have that kind of setup. I kinda want to try that now. I ain’t gonna subscribe to Netflix just to test this for myself tho.

    • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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      11 months ago

      And if you purchased movies from Sony instead, they will just remove them all from your account.

  • tty5@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Netflix limits you to 720p even on windows, unless you are using Edge: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742 (expand HTML5 browsers and scroll down).

    This limitation doesn’t apply to all content - it’s the worst case scenario if copyright holder really put their foot down.

    • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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      11 months ago

      But it should work fine with the Netflix app in the microsoft store. Not that this makes it any better.

  • whoareu@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    It doesn’t matter how much DRM you put into the service. someone can just spin up a Virtual Machine and install chrome, windows in it and then record the stream from the host system.

    • businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      11 months ago

      i wouldn’t count it as impossible for really cool and well-meaning businesses like the amazon fun factory to somehow detect and ban/restrict use on VMs

      • aksdb@feddit.de
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        11 months ago

        Sure, but the thing is: only a single person needs to break it temporarily in some way and this person can then leak the DRM free copy for everyone to consume.

        That’s why DRM is such bullshit. It only ever punishes legitimate users. All others are unaffected.