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DRM Hell (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 6 months ago by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Amazon Prime, like many services, is a DRM hell. It won't go to over 480p on Firefox on Linux at my end. However, instead of a rant, I am interested in why this is happening. Say, I rented the same film from YouTube Movies(Yes, such a service exists) and the quality can toggle all the upto 1080p but the same title on Prime Video is stuck at 480p. Is it because both services use two DIFFERENT kinds of DRM?

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[–] gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, the correct answer is just to pirate it, but you could probably fool it into thinking you're on windows by changing the user agent string of your browser to Chrome Windows x86_64

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 6 months ago

That doesn't work. You used to be able to run the windows version of google chrome in wine to watch amazon videos in 1080p, but that hasn't worked in years. Just pirate it. It's easier than messing with their stupid DRM.