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lyu0728206/17/20251 replyview on HN

But why does Hollywood even care about this DRM in the first place? I don't really understand why all this wasted effort, going so far with HDCP encrypted video signals.. I mean every new release is pirated within hours despite all of these protections anyway, so what exactly is the point? It's even easier and faster to just download a 4K torrent than to get Netflix in 4k working on many system configurations because of these overbearing DRM requirements.


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Mindwipe06/17/2025

Because that's not true. Pirates get very upset that 4K Netflix webrips often take weeks or months as hardware keys have to be burnt.

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