I also happen to live in a country where it is not illegal to do so (the 'decoding'). I will concede that it does come down the the ease of doing so, but as someone who has dabbled in settop boxes, cable drm, fta satellite, and other means, there will _always_ be a way to acquire and distribute, or just watch. Unless you lockdown the entire stream from transmission to display, there will be a way to acquire and redistribute. This is the part that I am missing as well. I thought the Pi was about the computer thing not the appliance thing. Either one has a general purpose computer or one has a locked down appliance like an ebook reader or games console.

Is there a happy 'middle way' in all this?Īt the moment I don't see it. I could not use it how I like as the computer that it is. That seems to imply that I don't have control of my machine anymore. Making it impossible for me to do things with your file that you don't like.

In order to control what happens to that file you would have to control my machine. If you, as a content provider, provide a file to me, as a customer of your work, then how is such DRM going to protect it from my nefarious copying or distributing? However, preconceptions aside, we all have those, I don't understand how it is supposed to work. Though you probably knew that and just playing Devils Advocate.

It is to ensure Content Providers have control of their Content: There are unofficial unsupported 3rd party workarounds, see: I was trying to use Firestick TV and some other Android boxes for my use case, which have Widevine L1, however there are another issues to deal with (VPN not working properly and a lots of others).ĭigital Rights Media is related to Secure Platform not any specific web browser, the Raspberry Pi SBC is not classed as a 'Secure Platform' I have tried Edge on Ubuntu and Edge there still does not pack the same DRM tech as the Windows version does. So lets wait whether they release or not and who knows which DRM tech they will pack in. OP would appreciate that if Microsoft Edge would pack DRM tech as it is doing on Windows, then Raspberry would become ideal Home Cinema device for me (I watch a lot of Free TV in German language which I am learning, however depending on the state of the weather, it either works or doesnt which makes it pretty annoying (I understand that working is dependent on which DRM broadcasters switch on).

Ms edge installer