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by jdprgm 819 days ago
That is completely psychotic blacking out single frame screenshots for copyright reasons. Copyright is truly out of control and just comically ridiculous at this point.
2 comments

It's not blacking out on purpose, rather it's a side-effect of the DRM chain. The DRM content is rendered outside of the UI chain, so it cannot be captured as part of a normal screenshot or video. The same happens on macOS (and even windows) if you try to screen record while watching DRM L1 content such as Netflix, Apple TV+, etc.
Widevine and HDCP can seriously suck it. Look at any torrent site and tell me that it stops piracy
DRM is on purpose.
Always has been. Tom Scott did a great video on copyright [1] - it's long overdue to revamp.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU