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by HeatrayEnjoyer 537 days ago
Video capture cards can be countered with encrypted video from GPU to monitor. That's why you can't screencap 4k Disney+ movies.
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Encrypted monitors can be countered by a high quality video camera mounted on a tripod behind your chair or on a wall or ceiling

Expensive, yes, but at that point you're already spending real money on a second computer with a GPU to do computer vision on the game video stream, so...

HDFury devices allow stripping of HDCP 2.2, and vast majority of users currently don't have HDCP 2.3 compatible monitors/TVs, so that's not an option yet.
I don't know if you need something as expensive as an HDFury. I know most $30 "4K upscalers" have a HDCP stripper built in.

edit: to further your point, though, I think most people's gaming monitors don't support HDCP _at all_. [citation needed]