When I first read this headline, I assumed it must be referring to a long lost specification called “Standard-Definition Multimedia Interface” that pre-dated HDMI.
In a way though, the media companies eventually got their way. Many of the revocation mechanisms exist in e.g. HDCP, and higher qualities on streaming services, even ones that were primarily not producers themselves like early netflix, were requiring TPMs and other user-limiting mechanisms. The fact that you can still get DRM free mp3s/m4as is basically a historical artifact of the music industry going first and being shut down hard by the initial resistance. Movies and ebooks have exactly the sort of landscape that the music companies would have liked.
> In a way though, the media companies eventually got their way. Many of the revocation mechanisms exist in e.g. HDCP, and higher qualities on streaming services, even ones that were primarily not producers themselves like early netflix, were requiring TPMs and other user-limiting mechanisms.
Yeah, but in practice I can buy HDCP strippers from Amazon for like 20€ - officially they're sold as "splitters" with side effects. Copy protection of BluRay disks doesn't matter either thanks to AnyDVD HD. And in case of doubt one of the large streaming providers will have whatever you want in a flatrate package.
They may have gotten their way, but they also completely lost as all the security theatre has gotten pointless - literal kids can bypass every modern "protection" there is with COTS hard- and software.
It's such a noble premise. Tech standing up to awful insider gatekeeping industry.
Now tech is the gatekeeper. 20 years, and it feels like tech's who reason & purpose is enshittification[1], making a good product then selling it out to non-users. Becoming a shitty tyrant like the RIAA, chuffed up on awful lawyers being litiguous.
