More importantly, why would software be required to engage in all activity by piping through such a hardware interface. I would expect that open source alternatives and virtualization could easily bypass its necessity.
At first glance, dumping the contents of any source media, or capturing network streams properly, should readily provide the raw, unencrypted content data, which is then decoded by an application that has been implemented without use of those particular hardware features.
At first glance, dumping the contents of any source media, or capturing network streams properly, should readily provide the raw, unencrypted content data, which is then decoded by an application that has been implemented without use of those particular hardware features.
Am I being naive?