• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    As another tid-bit, in the early days of the open-source AMD driver effort there were concerns around exposing GPU video acceleration in the open-source driver as to not potentially compromise HDCP / digital video restrictions with MPEG-LA and the like.

    How much of this fuckery boils down to the corporate media imposing DRM—all of it, or only most of it?

    • The Doctor@beehaw.org
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      8 months ago

      Most of it. There are still a small handful of “open source is worthless, forget about it” holdouts in this particular problem space.