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[–] ericswpark@lemmy.ml 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I absolutely hate this trend. If my eyeballs can see it, the camera on my phone can. Or a cheap HDMI capture card with a leaked HDCP key. They just want to screw over non-techie people who don't know about these workarounds.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I just learned about HDCP. What if you have display without HDCP support? This just sounds like a stupid idea.

Edit: Apparently laptops and computers should have that too. Is there any way I can test it on demand?

Edit 2: Intel just discontinued HDCP on Linux at start of this year.

[–] Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

That depends on the software in question, but generally it will play a degraded version of the content.

[–] Sheltac@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

The vast majority of people are non-techies, and that’s quite profitable.