Warner Bros And Intel Sue 4k Content Protection “Stripper”

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You know, it's generally a bad idea to mess with the likes of Warner Bros and Intel, especially when it comes to piracy. This company's big mistake was claiming its products comply with HDCP license requirements.

Warner Bros. and Intel's daughter company Digital Content Protection have sued a hardware manufacturer that creates devices enabling consumers to bypass 4K copy protection. The devices, sold under the HDFury brand, can be used by pirates to copy 4k video from streaming platforms as well as other HDCP 2.2 protected content.
 
Guess it works.

They just couldn't buy this much publicity.
 
blah blah blah <insert stripper reference joke> blah blah blah

Way to go guys, get this software more publicity so there are more downloads lol
 
Someone mentioned these guys products in another forum, and I had to ask myself: how on earth could they exist, legally?

It is becoming apparent that in the the minds of those whose product they're circumventing, they don't :D.
 
blah blah blah <insert stripper reference joke> blah blah blah

Way to go guys, get this software more publicity so there are more downloads lol

It is actually a hardware widget that up until a few hours ago was Amazon Prime...the same company makes lots of other widgets though. Course odds are they do not have the financial resources to fight a lawsuit from Waner and Intel and will go belly up rather than face criminal charges.
 
But the proof of concept is done. People know it's feasible now. Too late for damage control.
 
But the proof of concept is done. People know it's feasible now. Too late for damage control.

Not at all.

Devices to strip commercials from TV have existed for decades...you cannot buy one commercially still.
 
Someone mentioned these guys products in another forum, and I had to ask myself: how on earth could they exist, legally?

It is becoming apparent that in the the minds of those whose product they're circumventing, they don't :D.

Um even though DMCA has "fair use" which should allow you to make backups of movies you own. That fair use doesn't protect anything when it comes to removal of DRM. Fair use sounded like people something in the deal but its nothing more then a smoke screen with 0 protection since everything outta hollywood has DRM which you can't remove legally.
 
Someone mentioned these guys products in another forum, and I had to ask myself: how on earth could they exist, legally?

There are lots of reasons that I can see that it should be fair use to remove drm protections. Easiest one for this product is so that you can use a display that doesn't support hdcp. I have first hand experience with the nuisance that hdcp is. My dell 30" only supports hdcp at 1080p (its non native resolution). If I want to watch something on my pc that requires hdcp I am forced to change the resolution in windows to 1080p to watch and then change it back when I'm done. That's just stupid to have to do that, it should be fair use to remove drm when the drm makes playing something incompatible with the device. Lots of the first gen 4k tvs don't have hdcp 2.2 so with out this device they couldn't play the content.
 
The lawsuit effectively took it off the market within hours. Clones are probably forthcoming.

made in China, i bet manufacture is now pumping out more under a new name. :D
 
Once again, who suffers? The folks that pay for the content. As usual, the pirates are unaffected...
 
Today HDFury

Tomorrow 4kRipper, HD4kstripper, AnyVideo4k, 4kCopy, 4kCloner, 4kDecryptor,..etc.

Cat's outta da bag.
 
The lawsuit effectively took it off the market within hours. Clones are probably forthcoming.

Not at all.

Devices to strip commercials from TV have existed for decades...you cannot buy one commercially still.

Clones made by the same manufacturing facility no doubt. They probably lost the right to sell them commercially with that company name, but I would highly doubt the manufacturing there, or elsewhere will stop now. It just pushes the problem underground.
 
They'll just stop selling them in the USA and sell them elsewhere. I don't think anywhere else has a generic law against breaking DRM.
 
They'll just stop selling them in the USA and sell them elsewhere. I don't think anywhere else has a generic law against breaking DRM.

There nearly was. It was called ACTA. And the freedom loving small government types (actually they were actual card carrying socialists) of the European Union are the ones that stopped it from being international law.
 
Once again, who suffers? The folks that pay for the content. As usual, the pirates are unaffected...

Bear in mind that 90% of the world can't get 4K content even if we're willing to pay for it. So instead of sueing a device manufacturer warner should provide feasible alternatives to piracy. I swear if anyone would offer DRM free 4K content legally for money I'd not hesitate to buy it.
 
It must be embarrassing to pay a professional a good chuck of change to come up with a "protection scheme", only to have it reverse engineered and broken by some enthusiasts.
 
It must be embarrassing to pay a professional a good chuck of change to come up with a "protection scheme", only to have it reverse engineered and broken by some enthusiasts.

But that's not what they did- what's embarrassing is that they were able to pay politicians to make breaking said encryption scheme- which will always be broken- illegal.
 
It's unfortunate because HDFury was actually a legitimate company. They've sold a 1080p version for years. Their main customer base is guys running vintage 9" crt projectors that legitimately have the bandwidth to support 4k in some cases, but we're made in the 90s before digital protection existed. These are projectors that sell for nearly $10k sometimes. This core customer base is probably not bothering to pirate movies. They just want to be able to watch the disk they bought on their $100k home theater.
 
Encryption with a master key is and will always be epic fail.
 
The lawsuit effectively took it off the market within hours. Clones are probably forthcoming.

I can show you at minimum 10 devices you can purchase on Amazon right now that existed before this lawsuit and do the exact same thing, all of which are far cheaper (quite a few under $30, and yes, they handle 4k).

It's the nature of the world. Content protection is, and will always be, a losing battle.
 
Bear in mind that 90% of the world can't get 4K content even if we're willing to pay for it. So instead of sueing a device manufacturer warner should provide feasible alternatives to piracy. I swear if anyone would offer DRM free 4K content legally for money I'd not hesitate to buy it.
Premptive strike, get it off market before people can get it. If its sold to 100k people before they act well that could be resold on ebay or something.

I can show you at minimum 10 devices you can purchase on Amazon right now that existed before this lawsuit and do the exact same thing, all of which are far cheaper (quite a few under $30, and yes, they handle 4k).
It's the nature of the world. Content protection is, and will always be, a losing battle.

yea i can link to a good 1080p one that will do that for 1.3. Which i have so i can use my computer as like a DVR and setup timed recordings.
 
Clearly the point of these "protection" schemes is not to actually protect anything, it's to make it hard enough to access that any effort to get past it is then grounds for a lawsuit.

Got to love the people that do crack this stuff though, they take one for the team.
 
I can show you at minimum 10 devices you can purchase on Amazon right now that existed before this lawsuit and do the exact same thing, all of which are far cheaper (quite a few under $30, and yes, they handle 4k).

It's the nature of the world. Content protection is, and will always be, a losing battle.

Do these really fix HDMI handshaking issues? Can you link? I want one on a matrix switcher. I hate this stupid protection that makes home theaters such a PITA to setup.
 
Please post links. Thanks!

Premptive strike, get it off market before people can get it. If its sold to 100k people before they act well that could be resold on ebay or something.



yea i can link to a good 1080p one that will do that for 1.3. Which i have so i can use my computer as like a DVR and setup timed recordings.
 
I just got mine today. Free shipping. I found a code that made it 20$ cheaper. F U MPAA.
 
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