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  • Pirated 4K 'Aquaman' rip suggests iTunes 4K movie DRM has been broken

    Archie KaneArchie Kane
    fastasleep said:
    Is it not possible they just used an HDMI HDCP stripper box and a 4K capture card? I thought that's how these things are typically bypassed. 

    Ding ding ding, we have a winner.

    I cannot believe that this "story" spread so far on various Apple fan sites like this and so few people have pointed this out.

    One would think that somewhere, someone writing one of these "articles" would have peeked outside of the Apple bubble to realize this.

    There is nothing special about an Apple TV - no matter what level of DRM/encryption it uses internally, that means jack once it is sent out of the HDMI output.  Apple cannot control what happens after it escapes their device.

    Essentially, for under $150 anyone can use a consumer grade video capture device (usually marketed towards recording video game footage) and the right $10 splitter and you can record absolutely anything you can display on your TV.

    All these articles and comments speculating about "hacking" Apple TV's have given me quite the belly-laugh, frankly, because I just cannot believe how far folks are going in their assumptions and speculation when the answer is so blindingly simple, unless you somehow believe that Apple devices are "special" and don't have the same technical limitations as any other device that outputs to your TV.
    Johan42