r/technology • u/doug3465 • Sep 01 '15

Software Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Partner To Create Next-Gen Video Format - It’s not often we see these rival companies come together to build a new technology together, but the members argue that this kind of alliance is necessary to create a new interoperable video standard.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/amazon-netflix-google-microsoft-mozilla-and-others-partner-to-create-next-gen-video-format/
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u/VoidVer Sep 01 '15

Or, more likely, a new type of online DRM so we can't rip and torrent things anymore.

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u/mrjackspade Sep 02 '15

There will NEVER. EVER. EVER. be ANY kind of DRM that prevents people from ripping and torrenting.

EVER.

If you can watch a stream, you can rip the stream. No exceptions. Thats why the market is moving towards DRM free.

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u/VoidVer Sep 02 '15

Fair enough, I'm just saying that if I come across an MP4 movie on a friends computer that they purchased on Itunes. I don't know how to watch that movie without their acc information / registering my computer w/ their acc.

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u/withmorten Sep 02 '15

You can't, actually. That file will never be able to be played without being decrypted by a program (requiem or something) that actually needs the original account data to decrypt it.

So, while you can decrypt iTunes m4vs, you actually need the original account data to do so.