[al_borland]

My dad had a Blu-ray player that had similar features to a smart TV (Netflix, etc). There was a licensing sever and the API was down, so everything stopped working. A single point of failure for the whole device.

[pridkett]

That might’ve also been the September 6, 2022 Google Widevine license issue. This broke DRM protected content across most android based devices.

It wasn’t a single point of failure for a device. It was a single point of failure for the whole media ecosystem.

[0]: https://status.drmtoday.com/incidents/w2wbtnn9r67y