I'm going to stick my neck out (probably for no good reason) and say that I partially agree now. I disagree that SF doesn't care but I have no idea why it is taking this long to fix. And this is coming from someone, me, who thinks of himself as a StreamFab defender. I have no reason to be anything but a defender because, with the exception of the disaster called version 5.0.3.8, I have not had a bit of problem with StreamFab. Sure, some modules could use a little polish and minor changes made but I really can't complain. In truth I should't complain about the Apple and HBO modules either. Why? Because I'm not a subscriber to either service. The same with Disney, I'm not a subscriber. I received the modules as part of my A-I-O purchase but I've never run them. When I looked at the offerings from those 3 services I didn't find enough to make me want to lay my money out for their subscriptions. If I wanted any particular video from those 3 I have other resources, as do we all. So why stick my neck out? Because it's time. This has gone on for too long. If I don't speak out about 3 services I don't use, what happens the next time the DRM is changed and it is 1 or 2 of my subscribed-to services that fall by the wayside?
I don't know if the developer is in-house or a farmed out job but Fengtao needs to put pressure on the developer to get AppleTV+, HBO, and Disney+ working at their highest level possible, ASAP. Temporarily forget about work on all other modules, either existing or in planning. Put all available resources, meaning coders, on fixing these three modules. If you don't have enough coders, hire new ones. For the amount of money being charged for each module, money used to hire employees should not be a problem. Forgive me if I come across as being crass but the world looks to China for it's cheap labor. It's summertime and probably 100,000 recently graduated ex-students with Computer Science degrees are out there looking for something like this. Hire them and finally get these modules working to their fullest potential.
And finally, I absolutely hated everytime someone here did a "Well, the competition has it fixed." For the moment, let's put aside that based on reading their forum, they don't really have it fixed, not totally, anyway. The fact is (or at least, I believe) there are people out in the world that have already broken the HD and beyond DRM of these 3 services or have the talent to do it if asked. Fengtao (or whoever the developer is if not in-house) needs to track down these people and hire them immediately. They don't need to be located in China. Find the best video crackers in the world and put them to work. Once word gets out on how flawlessly StreamFab works Fengtao will be making so much money that they won't know what to do with it. How many purchases have been lost now because word got out that StreamFab has only low resolution for their AppleTV+, Disney+, and HBO modules?
Your Honor, the defense rests it's case.
Cats4U
I'm not gonna waste too much time here trying to explain since people seems to ignore it or are just too damn stupid like one of the previous speakers in this thread. It has been stated before on the forums what the problem is already and has been answered some times. But anyhow.
The DRM used by these services are not really "cracked" they are being circumvented.
You have 3 levels of encryption.
L1 this is the highest protection level. Formerly mostly used for 4K content but not more or less the standard.
L2 in the middle not too common
L3 which is the lowest that was used by most of the providers for 720 and 1080.
Then in December providers started to patch and fix the hole in the protection making things no longer work. This was "wave 1"
Then some months later came "wave 2" when most of the providers started to move their new content in 1080 to L1 or like Apple even putting their 720 in L1.
This is where we currently stand and unless someone leaks the encryption keys so they can be cached for decryption or leaks a L1 CDM (which will probably be banned once noticed) it is highly unlikely that this content will be downloadable again in the foreseeable future.
Of course there are places that has the newest content since they either use more advanced setups or has actually bought a leaked L1 CDM.
I will not go any deeper into the tech used since it might catch more attention than wanted on the forum.
So if you ask me it is not about not caring. But not being able too.
And I see no reason why they should halt all of their business just because of this. It's better to continue to develop and add other sites that actually still works and attracts people while waiting for an opportunity to "fix" the mainstream services.
The only thing that could be asked for is more transparency on what is going on. Instead of just giving a silent treatment.
