Unfortunately DRM is winning. It's failed before because the user could always drop down to a lower level and gain access, but now DRM is baked in to the hardware and OS of the devices people have. Those tricks to disable the secure flag feature do not work if the app uses safety net which can detect a rooted device and is backed up by boot chain attestation and hardware security chips.
Sure, for each part there is usually some exploit known, but the whole thing is getting much much harder to the point where if the average user said "How do I screenshot this app" the only real answer is to take a photo of the screen.
Yeah. At this point most computers up for sale actually belong to the manufacturer. The people who buy them have almost no control anymore. We'll never be truly free until we can make our own computers at home just like how we can make our own free software at home.
Agree with this. Cracking DRM was difficult and a PITA 20 years ago, but now the blackboxes are using the DRM modules that practically every device ships with it will get to the point where we need to go full "bunnie" Huang on the mobos to extract the keys.
Oaw, you 2 must be young. Remember the wars in end of 80's / beginning of 90's about PPV from satellites and everything was hardware protected? You know who won them? Pirates did. Hardware, software, whatever - if it's made by humans will be unmade by humans as well.
Sure, for each part there is usually some exploit known, but the whole thing is getting much much harder to the point where if the average user said "How do I screenshot this app" the only real answer is to take a photo of the screen.