> In that context, this is vendor’s responsibility to constantly increase the bar and with the use of all available technological means.
Or the vendor could just let me consume the content I paid for in whatever player I like. Which is what happens anyway, as this sort of DRM is always breakable. If the media consumer can view the content at all, they can simply record that output and re-encode in a more convenient storage format.
Yes, there is always the analogue loophole. And opening cryptography toolbox to control how users consume content is a lost cause. Crypto can only protect contents from adversaries that don't have the key. But here the paying user is the adversary and the only way the DRM can paint the video on screen is through that key.
So DRM boils down to security through obscurity. Turns out obscurity is hard, expensive and never works very well.
Or the vendor could just let me consume the content I paid for in whatever player I like. Which is what happens anyway, as this sort of DRM is always breakable. If the media consumer can view the content at all, they can simply record that output and re-encode in a more convenient storage format.