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		esrauch on Nov 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is jus... Except that these videos are playing on your local machine. With the most advanced DRM mechanism possible it is nearly as trivial to simply record the video output. There is no reason to spend developer time making a complex mechanism that is no more secure than a simple xor.

coin on Nov 27, 2012 [–]

Recording the output is not the same as extracting the DRM-free stream

esrauch on Nov 29, 2012 | [–]

This is educational content not blockbuster films. Recording the output in this case would be more than sufficient.

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