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roywashere on May 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time

Widevine is the first DRM to be really open to be ported. They suck the least of all DRM systems. This is the DRM used in the Chrome browser and Firefox. I think it would be possible (not easy, or logical, but possible) that Serenity Browser gets Widevine at some point.

dvfjsdhgfv on May 28, 2021 | [–]

I don't think so. See "I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me" [0] and the related HN discussion [1].

[0] https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25849800

coldtea on May 28, 2021 | [–]

Don't the content companies need to trust your project with some secret key at some point for this to work?

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