I suppose this is another example of Streisand Effect... never heard of this project and now I do, and I guess many others are going to mirror it now that they do as well.

Mirror https://cdm-project.com/tpd94/CDRM-Project

So this is why we can’t have nice things

If maintainers/contributors are in Europe, in don't see how this takedown is legal as you have the right to circumvent such things to ensure interoperability...

There are few mothers of invention as fecund as a nerd who wants to watch porn. If the world is about to be destroyed it would be ideal if the problem turns out to be isomorphic with decoding a clip of people having sex.

onlyfans is obviously doing this so people will pirate more. thats all that ever happens with these kinds of virtue takedowns.

DRM is a scam, its made to convince business suits they can magically prevent copying. no one makes money telling them theyre wrong and their business model is to blame.

> One of the most widespread is Google’s Widevine and avoiding its footprint today is almost futile.

I don't know about that. Brave asks me if I want to install the widevine extension and I just say no and go elsewhere. I guess it's possible that I just don't know what I'm missing, but it's been fine so far. Now that I'm aware of the circumvention effort though, I'll probably look into it.

The worst part of Widevine DRM in this application is that even the content models themselves are accidentally victims of using the DRM model in the first place.

I've got a few contacts that I explained how Widevine "downgrading" works to and they had a sudden realization as to the source of some of their biggest complaints from some of their users...

... You see, in the Widevine dumping community, the biggest prized jewel is a "keybox" that can decode Widevine's top content - an L1 keybox. As soon as a device is compromised and its keybox is widely distributed for wider Widevine cracking, the keybox is revoked or downgraded to L3 playback at best - 480p.

And the complaint I asked if they'd gotten? Poor viewing quality on all video, especially from Android device users, and especially from "lower end" Android devices. Check, check, and check.

Legitimate customers end up victim to Widevine DRM "silent" failure that they then blame the content creator for, despite the content creator putting out full resolution content for everyone to watch, which leads to the content creator losing a customer that feels they've been gaslit out of possible confusion from the creator not knowing what happened.