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0 pointsfastball9y ago0 comments

Not true.

An important use for DRM in regards to streaming services is to prevent people on shared networks from getting access to the data. For instance, if I was in a college dorm with dorm-wide wifi, and I was watching my de-DRM'd Netflix, anyone on the dorm intranet could snoop my packets and get the data being transmitted to me by Netflix, for free.

That is nigh on impossible to do when the content is encrypted with DRM.

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izacus9y ago

Never in my times of working for content provider / transport was that even remotely the reason for DRM.

It was always passing the legal buck ("It wasn't us that let those evil evil pirates steal your series, we did all we could, look at that DRM software certificate!").

Snooping packets in dorm rooms? No.

rudolf09y ago

Not to mention that even if it were an issue, TLS would be a much easier and cheaper solution.

ulrikrasmussen9y ago

To be fair, simple end-to-end encryption of non-DRM'd material would accomplish the same.

Spivak9y ago

What? You're just talking about TLS. This has absolutely nothing to do with client-side DRM modules.

serge2k9y ago

TLS solves that problem.

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