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by kalleboo 754 days ago
The pixels are literally encrypted on PCIe on their way over to the GPU, it's quite draconian. Been this way since Vista ("Blu-ray is a bag of hurt" - Steve Jobs)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Media_Path

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That is a crazy thing to do! Looks like it's windows specific at least.