Trying to extract Widewine key: A journey to failure
From the repo:<p>>It is my honest opinion that DRM is a malignant tumor growing upon various forms of media, and that people that either implement or enforce implementation are morally repugnant and do no good to society. With that in mind, I was sad to learn in May 2021 that the original extension would soon be rendered obsolete.<p>I really can't agree more. I don't use, and never have, services that require DRM. I buy my games from gog.com and itch.io and the like, get media from free-to-air television and state broadcasters, and buy music either from the artist or from good and reputable music labels like hyperion.co.uk. I buy books in a dead-tree form, or as DRM-free PDFs. I will simply not buy, use, or support DRM and I occasionally tell firms that I am not giving them business because of their inane corporate decisions.<p>This might seem like a hard rant, but all of these binary blobs can be broken with varying degree of difficulty -- as this person's work shows -- because <i>DRM is fundamentally pointless</i>. It's such a waste of human endeavor! Think how many CPU cycles are burnt doing this! Estimate what the total cost of HDCP + Widevine + DRM etc is on the planet! It is pointless, insulting, and frustrating!<p></rant>.