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There's no impossible because if you can see it, it can be captured and digitized, but there is a level of complication that can make it unreasonable. They could make it unreasonable to crack the drm outright and require you to screenshot/OCR it. Then they can limit the OS to make to difficult to automate capture.
Bottom line, they're just kicking payers off their network when it's easier to pirate it than to buy it through their service.
Something something, piracy is a service problem. That’s why Spotify et al. still thrive, but more and more the Netflixes of the world are being replaced with yaaar
It's also a pricing issue as well.
The analog hole works on a lot of stuff
That's my post apoc Youtube plan. Play on a sanctioned browser with videos and use comskip, write them off to my storage.
We're going back to my TV->AVI setup from 2003, only maybe we'll use HVEC this time.
Lol, just read the Arch Wiki about Bluray playing. Unreasonable only takes a bit longer.
Especially engineering people get creative out of interest if they're denied access. And that's a beautiful thing.
MakeMKV is in AUR :) Sure, it's not playing a disk...
So just like what people do with paper books.
What GOOGLE did WITHOUT PERMISSION to paper books. ;)
I've imaged a few short books with a cellphone and page correction software.
It takes dedication to make a pleasant final product. But those vacuum book scanners are freaking amazing.