Hey, at least it told you. When i was fiddling to get disney plus working on my own setup it just refused to play until i changed the reported OS to windows. Nothing else was changed. I really have no idea why they would go out of their way to block specific operating systems.
I have regularly watched Disney plus and Max on my Linux systems. But not all Linux systems are equal. Watching it on something like Debian would be pretty hard. Debian generally doesn’t support much in the way of DRM as it goes against most of their philosophy. You can get a browser installed with support for the widevine DRM they require. But it’s a lot of work on a system like that. However under Arch or Endeavor OS it was relatively simple.
That’s more to do with the version of WideVine DRM your browser has - the DRM in Firefox is neutered so the chrome will always give the best experience. Why? Because the WideVine DRM is owned by Google.
You did? I also tried that, but the best resolution I got was 540p… As far as my research went that was because they require a higher widevine level not available on linux for HD
They can detect that too - at least, they can detect the common software. You might be able to do it with a custom QEMU setup but good luck guaranteeing that for your exam.
The easy way involves looking at the devices and drivers you have installed. Things like a VirtualBox display or a SPICE guest driver are dead giveaways. next, they might look at your processor and see if it has as many cores as it should, but that's more involved.
Holy shit why is it even getting anywhere near that nosy?
Because it also serves as an anti-cheat...in the most literal sense. It is trying to make sure students can't cheat by having other things open like answer pages or Google.
The qualifications industry is heavily reputation based. If they get a reputation for letting cheaters slide, their reputation tanks among employers and therefore no one will want that qualification.
And these qualifications are expensive as hell too.
I used to be a reseller of this highly specialized navigation software. The licensing was handled via hardware fingerprinting of the harddrive. I’m not 100% sure on how it worked, but it grabbed some raw data off of the boot device, and from that generated a fingerprint. This fingerprint was then sent to the guys who made the software, and they would then send us a license key and a hefty bill. The license key only worked with syatems running off of that particular harddrive. If a customer had a harddrive failure, we had to send them the actual harddrive for them to verify, so they would issue a free key to whichever replacement drive was used.
I did a lot of experimenting with that software. It was linux based and very tweakable, but the licensing part of it was a bit of a mystery. I managed to crack it through some surprisingly simple out-of-the-box thinking, but one limitation I could never figure out how to circumvent was its refusal to generate a fingerprint from virtual drives.
For starters, it only worked with drives registering as /dev/hdX or /dev/sdX. Anything outside of that and it wouldn’t generate a fingerprint.
This was especially frustrating when a well-paying customer offered a nice bonus if we could install it on a macbook for him. After a few days of tweaking I managed to install and run it, only to discover that fingerprinting the drive couldn’t be done due to the device node being/dev/nvmeSomething. And after avfew more days of hacking I managed to fake that too, and they outright refused to issue a license due to them not wanting to support our unofficial hacks.
Where was I going with this? Oh, right, vmware… i never managed to get it to run in vmware. We had this other well paying customer who wanted the ability to alt-tab between the software and Windows. Unfortunately, any fingerprinting done from within vmware, regardless how I set up the storage, resulted in a fingerprint file with no data.
Fun fact: the software ui was written in raw xlib. I got to know the owner and lead dev fairly well, and he hinted that the codebase was a complete mess to the point where something as simple as an input dialog for a config option I recommended was A LOT of work.
Technically true, but programs loaded via WINE can be made to act somewhat containerised, and can provide incomplete information as to what else is running. Maybe containerisation is the wrong word though, maybe 'sandbox' instead?
Good luck detecting Linux native programs from WINE-loaded Windows executables.
<span style="color:#323232;">> changes user agent
</span><span style="color:#323232;">> site works just fine
</span><span style="color:#323232;">> mfw
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If I had a dollar for every time someone has mentioned that under this post…
Yes I can do that, in fact it doesn’t even stop me using it and it works fine. But you’re missing the point. The point is they claim that their website is OS-dependent when they’re really just lazy-asses
It’s a web page. Webpages have shit to do with the operation system. Webpages however have been a classic Microsoft truck to force people on their shit software (hello ie6 hell!) so you can pretty much bet money on it that this is done at the request of a manager who got a good deal with Microsoft.
How does DRM(Digital Rights Management) that has as function the blocking of copying or “blocking non legitimate access” of copyrighted media prevent cheating?
Because that is far different as things like access to tests answers, because that is not the same than copyright.
At the university I am going to they require a book for every course, and a plan on how they're going to use it.
What's great is that I've all my professors right back. All of my professors include a book that is fairly old and include some verbage in the syllabus about how they "reserve the right to assign reading assignments" i.e. book quizzes, but they actually never have assigned them previously and don't even have material made up.
I'm guessing the reason for this policy is because the university has an opt-out (you have to re-opt out every semester, and you have to check some professors lock their own material) $150 paywall to get online access to your books. The only way I can see this as worth it is if your taking like 6 classes and all of them use books written in the last 5 years or so...
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