It is interesting to see the experiment results with 7%-8% improvements in media rebuffers with just moving from 1-RTT to 0-RTT. Wonder if they ever considered having only one layer of encryption instead of two (TLS and DRM). Would that save more CPU and hence avoid media rebuffers lot more?
DRM is required by the people they licence video from. I imagine that they wouldn't do it if they didn't have to. (They might still do it to their own content but I don't see what they gain by doing it for someone else's)
IIRC, Amazon Prime actually uses less obnoxious DRM on their own content than for 3rd party stuff.
At least, when I had a computer configuration that they said was unsupported for HD due to DRM reasons, I was still able to get Amazon's own videos in 1080p
By now I have only heared about (and experienced) the downsites of DRM. Are there any good arguments for it / casestudies that show any reduction in piracy?
