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>Also, I doubt many people are going to be getting their Netflix captures/dumps from an Android device anyway so its a useless restriction, they'll be doing it on a PC where this cannot be enforced

Not for Netflix 4K, which requires SGX capable CPUs to play.

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And windows 10 anniversary update, Microsoft Edge, Direct Play 2.0 support (which can only be found on recent graphics cards or 7th gen Intel integrated and only works over certain video outputs). For example I have a 7th gen Intel cpu, I can boot into windows and use Edge, download the media extensions, update my graphic drivers, but I still can't get 4k Netflix because my GPU is a year or so older than AMF supports for Direct Play 2.0 and additionally I have my 4k 10bit color monitor using Display port for the higher bandwidth. From what I've read at this time Display port isn't even supported with Direct Play 2.0 by AMD.

Basically it's such a pain in the ass, you aren't going to have 4k Netflix on PC, possibly even if you try...

Just wait. Human-made designs are susceptible to human-made hacks.

Yet there are 4K rips sourced from Netflix being shared on pirate sites.

And you can play them on anything! :)

It's a really bizarre situation that BitTorrent is actually the most convenient consumption mechanism if you want a lot of diverse, specific or old content. All you have to do is be behind the "new releases" by a month or two and wait a few minutes for the downloads to complete, but that's a minor issue.

I think it ultimately is caused by: a) content is not fungible, and b) content-delivery platforms (Netflix, HBO, whatever) cannot seem to agree on cross-licensing the content. This means that they simply cannot deliver the convenience of torrented content. For some reason this translates to "we must protect our content with even 'stronger' DRM" in the business-peoples' minds, but piracy isn't the root of the problem.

>All you have to do is be behind the "new releases" by a month or two and wait a few minutes for the downloads to complete, but that's a minor issue.

Well, even that can be a non-issue if you have access to the better indexers, be it P2P or Usenet.

I pay subscriptions to services like Netflix and Amazon Prime and still end up downloading lots of the same stuff from... alternative sources simply due to the convenience that confers.

Anything bad that happens to the companies or entities that are responsible for shoving this crap down customers' throats is their doing alone.

Maybe they are attacking the display.

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