[darklajid]

What I'd like to understand is how pluggable these DRM plugins are. For most things on Android you can just replace the default thingy with your own (dialer, home screen are prominent examples).

How long until someone comes up with a custom DRM plugin that returns true for all validation requests?

[tomjen3]

You properly have to replace the entire component - eg you have to decrypt the movie (easy enough since the master key was leaked some time ago), talk to the hardware, etc.

[Relwal]

An app that is using android.drm will probably be looking for specific DRM plugins.

[odiroot]

Plugins that would be signed. It'd also make sense if the whole communication with content owners (or Google) was encrypted.