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Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-what-users-wanted dept.

writertype writes: Last month, Microsoft began talking about PlayReady 3.0, which adds hardware DRM to secure 4K movies. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm are all building it in, according to Microsoft. "Older generations of PCs used software-based DRM technology. The new hardware-based technology will know who you are, what rights your PC has, and won’t ever allow your PC to unlock the content so it can be ripped. ... Unfortunately, it looks like the advent of PlayReady 3.0 could leave older PCs in the lurch. Previous PlayReady technology secured content up to 1080p resolution using software DRM—and that could be the maximum resolution for older PCs without PlayReady 3.0." Years back, a number of people got upset when Hollywood talked about locking down "our content." It looks like we may be facing it again for 4K video.

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  1. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And why would anyone willingly submit themselves to this abuse? I absolutely will not be adding hardware that only serves the purpose of limiting what I can do with my PC.

  2. If you read between the lines by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What they're saying is "If you want to enjoy your content unencumbered, it's probably best to just pirate it."

  3. Fine by me... by neminem · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know the content will still be uploaded to thepiratebay literally within seconds of release (or sometimes before... thanks, anonymous GoT leaker!), right? And everyone who wants to pirate it will just do that still? So this is only going to hurt, or at least vaguely annoy, people who weren't going to pirate it anyway?

  4. Re: This never works by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nope, you are in their sights as well. The end goal is to get compensation for every separate ingestion of content. No first sale doctrine, entertainment as a service.

  5. The movie studios are full of idiots by Karmashock · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sure MS etc knows this can't possibly work. So they're doing this to placate the movie studios by doing something that the studios think will work even though it can't possibly work.

    All that has to happen is ONE person has to break the DRM and then convert the movie or whatever into some other DRM free format and then that format is passed around the internet.

    Look at all the crap on the pirate channels and it is all DRM free. And nearly all of it had DRM on it at some point. It was stripped off.

    Now they say here that this is Hardware DRM. But that's bullshit. Some aspect of it is going to be software and that is where the cracker is going to break it.

    So yeah. Headline should read "Movie Studios still don't understand how computers work."

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  6. Re:This never works by Megane · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I came to say roughly the same thing. 4K resolution is absolutely overkill for video. Sitting six feet away from a 37" 1080p TV set to 720p in Windows (otherwise I can't even read the small text), I can watch a 480p video without feeling like I'm losing anything. I still don't have Blu-Ray, aside from a BD reader drive that a friend gave me because he wasn't using it. I put it on an Ubuntu box and have not even been able yet to play that Talledega Nights movie that was one of the earliest releases (I got it real cheap at a thrift store, it's my only BD disc at all).

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  7. Re:This never works by g0bshiTe · · Score: 5, Informative

    The latest gen consoles don't even have a single crack or mod in place, much less an actual break

    http://wccftech.com/hackers-break-ps4-firmware-176-webkit-exploit/

    http://www.kdramastars.com/articles/71455/20150129/xbox-one-jailbreak-jtag.htm

    http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/forums/xbox-one-modding.463/

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  8. Re:This never works by PRMan · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Was this hack always an inevitability? Perhaps not. Fail0verflow claims it only started to work on the PS3 system when Sony made the decision to disable the machine's Other OS functionality."

    http://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2011/jan/07/playstation-3-hack-ps3

    It takes a long time when nobody's trying. As soon as Sony removed OtherOS, it only took a few weeks.

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  9. Re: This never works by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whoa there. You wouldn't steel a car, would you???

  10. Re:This never works by Megane · · Score: 5, Funny

    Congratulations, you now know you need glasses.

    No, it means I have a lawn. Can you see it? Good. Now get off of it.

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