> AACS 2.0 demands you have a special CPU, Motherboard, GPU and more components that lock you out and disable themselves if you use custom software/drivers
That's a standard I have zero knowledge of, because I have absolutely zero intentions going down that road for any reason what so ever. And I wish that would apply to much more people!
My PC represents the last bastion of true computing freedom, and I'm not giving up that, just to be able to watch some movies in a freaking web-browser.
(In the name of pragmatism and not being a complete neckbeard, I have separate, unfree, locked down devices for that specific purpose)
AACS 2.0 is a DRM standard used in UHD/4K Blu-Ray disks. It requires the device to call home via internet to retrieve the decryption keys for the BR disc you're holding in your hand. You need a full stack supporting DRM (including a CPU with ironically called "Software Guard Extensions").
At this point there's obviously no way of playing back these on Linux or non-whitelisted hardware, which is an issue because they're the only source of truly high-quality 4k/HDR content (the videos are encoded in 50+ MBit bitrate as opposed to HDR content on streaming services which barely gets to 15Mbit and is therefore not really much visually different than fullHD content).
Also, I've just noticed that Netflix on the web demands to "verify my hardware" (on Chromebook) to determine if my laptop is properly locked down for video playback. The DRM assault is getting worse, not better.
They offer 4K streams already, but they don't use this DRM standard. They mostly now use Widewine or some similar which is also slowly pushing to the same restrictions as AACS 2.0 on BR discs has.
Would love say, if I had enough control over my tablet to not tell youtube when my screen was turned off, so they can't force me to buy youtube red for "background listening" the free lectures their users kindly upload for them, like they've recently started doing. Is not reporting that my screen is turned off considered pirating?
I for one am shocked that their monopoly position has resulted in such behavior.
Not Firefox on iPad at least. The previous fixes of watching in private mode and watching through 3rd party sites seem to be blocked now as well as far as I can tell.
That's a standard I have zero knowledge of, because I have absolutely zero intentions going down that road for any reason what so ever. And I wish that would apply to much more people!
My PC represents the last bastion of true computing freedom, and I'm not giving up that, just to be able to watch some movies in a freaking web-browser.
(In the name of pragmatism and not being a complete neckbeard, I have separate, unfree, locked down devices for that specific purpose)