> No, with DRM, you can't make and sell a player
Is it still relevant nowadays? I thought most people just went to online streaming, and you don’t need DRM to enforce all that stuff there.
> Pirating high-res videos already requires special hardware to remove HDCP.
That is true, and a new standard might make it harder for a few years, but:
1. The switch won’t happen overnight, which means pirates would still use HDCP while working on the new one.
2. It’s possible to make piracy prohibitively expensive, but the standard would have to be really really complex. Like, “putting hidden watermarks with display serial number on the stream and revoking keys just for that display” kind of complex. I don’t think it’s feasible.
