Great article.
Nice blog. And cool footer banner.
Absolutely insane, the level of technical prowess and how much time and effort went into making something like this work. Although, DRM is cancer and shouldn’t exist, I can respect how this dude hacked it.
Reminding me why I don’t nerd out nearly as hard as I used to. I’m way too lazy for this sort of thing now and there’s only so much time in a day.
Great piece, impressive work; Fedora now ships widevine by default - and it’s not working anymore. I have a recent Asahi install, netflix won’t play (used to work at the time of this blog post).
For me it works fine, but I guess that might be because I use the flatpak version of Firefox.
Yeah, I’m not installing DRM to watch anything on any service. I’ll pirate, thanks very much.
Or you could buy it legally. What we need is a way to keep a lot of the crime at bay while making sure people who take the time to buy blurays and DVDs can still have a legal home library
Disney announced the end of physical media in Australia and New Zealand. Blackmarkets arise naturally when supply does not meet demand. It is preferable, morally and for society if people share media for free rather than fund organised crime as happens with most other black markets. I try and support creative industries where I can but piracy is the lesser evil in some cases.
Piracy is always good
Except for the tiny fact that you are breaking the law
The law is not good or bad, it’s just the law
Which you should not break for the sake of breaking
Unless it’s good to break the law.
Unless you are part of a civil rights movement or something as equally just I have a hard time believing that. To quote Martin Luther King Jr.:
“We will not obey unjust laws or submit to unjust practices. We will do this peacefully, openly, cheerfully because our aim is to persuade. We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself.”
Basically if you are committing piracy as some sort of morally right act then you should not hide in the shadows.
Blu Ray and DVDs have DRM too.
Well, yeah but that is a different issue.
From what I remember you have to set up some DRM stuff to play Blu-Ray in Linux also.
I do not believe so. I use MakeMKV but that is not good practice as it is proprietary software. You can play Blurays with VLC but you need the decryption keys.
VLC literally includes optional DRM circumvention that on most GNU/Linux distributions you need to deliberately install in order to play Blu-rays and DVDs. Thus, the use of illegal tools (illegal in the U.S. at least) is the only way you can play these physical digital media on Linux distributions without DRM software.
And that is simply not true
