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Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
More content blocking on rooted devices! This time it's blockbuster:

http://androidandme.com/2011/05/appl...ing-bandwagon/

This could be the beginning of a trend.

This move can only increase the rate of piracy, as this (arguably small) group of users will get their content fix using other channels.

What's most interesting is the DRM software (Widevine) seems to deploy to Windows as well, which is pretty much a fully 'rooted' system, as well as OSX. In other words, if the software works as it should, I don't see the benefit of excluding rooted Android users.

Additionally, installing the APK on a non-rooted system, then rooting it or mounting the FS image, will give access to the APK. Either way, the APK can be easily exposed, and the content accessed. If they're worried about reverse-engineering or de-compiling the code, I don't think this will help much.

Perhaps it's one of those things that just sound good to executives but amounts to false security.
What's to prevent someone with a hex editor from changing a few bits to make it skip the check or to reverse the logic to allow ONLY rooted phones to (i.e. instad of BNE (branch if not equal) token code, change it to a BOE (branch if equal) code in the binary?). Seriously stupid.

Also.. as an aside, it's been a year or so.. but this seems to be gathering more and more steam and Samsung has already embedded digital TV tuners in their Galaxy S for South America! Here's hoping it becomes the norm in North America--especially with all the crazy weather we've seen lately (and generally poor availability of phone networks during catastrophes):

GO SAMSUNG!!!
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