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Azure Media Services DRM screen capture protection

Sony94 1 Reputation point
2021-02-15T08:48:32.09+00:00

Referring to: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/SECURITY/en-US/c009d689-8f4d-402b-ba16-e498e7b8bda3/does-azure-media-plataform-provides-any-protection-againts-screen-recording-by-mean-of-drm?forum=MediaServices

He says "E.g., if you play Widevine protected content in Chrome browser on Windows, you can still make screen capture.". But how does Netflix prevent screen capture when using Chrome on Windows then? I know Netflix uses Widevine as well.

On a side note: I'm really struggling to setup Azure Media Services DRM protection: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66198524/how-to-setup-drm-protection-with-azure-media-services-to-prevent-screen-capture

I want to block screen capture on all platforms, and not support platforms that can't do this.

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A group of Azure services that includes encoding, format conversion, on-demand streaming, content protection, and live streaming services.
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  1. William Zhang 91 Reputation points
    2021-02-24T23:18:02.273+00:00

    If you see the error as shown in the above screenshot, please try this: instead of clicking on the sample URLs on this page, copy the URL and paste it into your browser.

    The above 2 sample URLs can prevent screen capture in Chrome on Windows 10. If the same content does not prevent screen capture on another device or browser, it is really a client implementation issue. For example, the above samples can prevent screen capture on Chrome/Windows 10, but it does not on Firefox/Windows 10.

    I don't think you should expect Widevine can prevent screen capture on any Widevine-equipped client.