[anthk]

The computer related companies should have given the middle finger to the media Mafiaa long ago and tell them to STFU if they ever wanted their content to be displayed in a computer with PC based standards and not MPEG.

Once you get a libre OS you can dump the content of the BUS or fake whatever HDMI hardware out there to get pristine audio and video frames. Also, the current Hollywood movies are very subpar compared to what we had in the 90's, so who cares.

My SO has an Amazon Prime account and yet they want to show adverts in middle of a media she already paid to be displayed without ads in theory. So, you are paying them twice. Thus, I don't consider Bittorrent piracy when you legally paid for a service but the streamers can break out the rules anytime.

[fifteen1506]

Sure. Try dumping SkyShowTime shows/movies then. (refuses to run on GNU/Linux).

The average power user won't be able to run SkyShowTime on Linux. The idea is locking everyone on Windows, OS X or Linux with Secure Boot and verifiable boot chain if you want to watch movies or TV shows.

[realusername]

The irony is customers have a more reliable service with pirated shows nowadays, they always play and the quality doesn't change.

[anthk]

Crackers will just use kvm for virtualisation and dump whatever they want either directly or over SPICE.

[fifteen1506]

Probably. Though I'm still wondering why hasn't Microsoft implemented some kind of roles along Verified Boot.

No-one, in Hollywood's view, should be able to watch protected content on a VM. Plus for me it's choppy. Waiting for better virtio graphics drivers for Windows (bugs exist in Visual Studio with HW accel on and there is no 3D support).

[phone[phone]]

Capturing content like that is something you'd do with GPU passthrough, not virtio drivers.

[fifteen1506]

But Windows knows it's being virtualized. Why doesn't it disable Hi-def output when doing so?