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How does this fit in with an open source model? Surely you can just extract the keys/license without reverse engineering anything then?

It's daft.




Restricting what you can do with data doesn't fit well with open-source. If you can read a stream and decode it to a screen or speaker, you'll also be able to save it to a file. If you can't change the software to do whatever you want it to (and download copy-protected streams is one thing you may want) it's not open-source.


The DRM components won't be open source.




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