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Yes, you can get around it by playing the video in a virtual machine and capturing it from the host. For widevine videos playing in browser it is also as trivial as disabling hardware acceleration from the browser's settings.


But doesn't this limit you to 1080p?


Correct


Yeah, so that's not really relevant. Hardware DRM is generally only used for 4K, as mentioned in the article.


Indeed, note that I'm not the same user you were originally replying to


(Thanks, yes I know! I still wanted to finish the point!)




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