[reacweb]

Maybe their purpose was Widevine. The youtube-dl takedown was a way to distract the attention. I don't think we should rejoice until Widevine is back.

[tbodt]

The widevine-l3-decryptor takedown wasn't filed by the RIAA

[smnrchrds]

I am out of the loop. What happened to Widevine?

[mmm_grayons]

Some guy wrote a tool to intercept the keys for level three on windows. Most streaming services offer only low-quality streams with level three, but big G dmca'ed the repo and most forks. Mirrors are still up all over, though; here's one: https://github.com/kipyegonmark/widevine-l3-decryptor

[boogies]

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=widevine