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by Rjevski 2777 days ago
The only way for this to work would be for Microsoft to provide the hardware to begin with. As it stands, all the "security" technologies are still under the control of the user, which means the only barrier is the time it takes to reverse-engineer how they work.

> Netflix 4K requiring Kaby Lake processors for their on-die DRM solution.

Just a matter of time before it's reverse engineered. It's not secure by any means. You can prove this by using the same technologies to allow anyone to download (but not use, due to DRM) a private key associated with a lot of cryptocurrency, and see how little time it takes before someone steals the money.