The worst part of Widevine DRM in this application is that even the content models themselves are accidentally victims of using the DRM model in the first place.
I've got a few contacts that I explained how Widevine "downgrading" works to and they had a sudden realization as to the source of some of their biggest complaints from some of their users...
... You see, in the Widevine dumping community, the biggest prized jewel is a "keybox" that can decode Widevine's top content - an L1 keybox. As soon as a device is compromised and its keybox is widely distributed for wider Widevine cracking, the keybox is revoked or downgraded to L3 playback at best - 480p.
And the complaint I asked if they'd gotten? Poor viewing quality on all video, especially from Android device users, and especially from "lower end" Android devices. Check, check, and check.
Legitimate customers end up victim to Widevine DRM "silent" failure that they then blame the content creator for, despite the content creator putting out full resolution content for everyone to watch, which leads to the content creator losing a customer that feels they've been gaslit out of possible confusion from the creator not knowing what happened.
You are portraying the creator as another victim here, but they chose to use the platform using that drm - likely partially because of the promise of said drm.
If one isn't technical, DRM sounds like a great thing. "Finally, a way to keep people from getting your content without paying for it!" Of course, it doesn't, and makes the experience worse for actual customers.
Seeing their work widely pirated is demoralizing enough for conventional content creators. I imagine the scale it happens at with adult material, and the intimate nature of the work magnifies that sense of being cheated dramatically for OF models.
I've got a few contacts that I explained how Widevine "downgrading" works to and they had a sudden realization as to the source of some of their biggest complaints from some of their users...
... You see, in the Widevine dumping community, the biggest prized jewel is a "keybox" that can decode Widevine's top content - an L1 keybox. As soon as a device is compromised and its keybox is widely distributed for wider Widevine cracking, the keybox is revoked or downgraded to L3 playback at best - 480p.
And the complaint I asked if they'd gotten? Poor viewing quality on all video, especially from Android device users, and especially from "lower end" Android devices. Check, check, and check.
Legitimate customers end up victim to Widevine DRM "silent" failure that they then blame the content creator for, despite the content creator putting out full resolution content for everyone to watch, which leads to the content creator losing a customer that feels they've been gaslit out of possible confusion from the creator not knowing what happened.