DRM Hell - eviltoast

Amazon Prime, like many services, is a DRM hell. It won’t go to over 480p on Firefox on Linux at my end. However, instead of a rant, I am interested in why this is happening. Say, I rented the same film from YouTube Movies(Yes, such a service exists) and the quality can toggle all the upto 1080p but the same title on Prime Video is stuck at 480p. Is it because both services use two DIFFERENT kinds of DRM?

  • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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    5 months ago

    Your original comment made couple of days ago is visible. It was just duplicated couple of times more in the thread and the mods deleted the duplicates.

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      5 months ago

      Oh, yeah, I did delete them (again, right after you) as soon as I saw that. Have been having this issue in voyager where it tells me it wasn’t posted, so I try again and then it’s duplicated. I did not check that one again, and I do apologize for being careless. I’ll be more careful moving forward. Thank you.