Posted on 01/27/2019 2:22:06 PM PST by NewJerseyJoe
So I discovered something annoying. I have long been in the custom of watching streaming videos (on Amazon Prime) and making screen captures to turn into amusing memes. As of today, when I tried to make a screen cap and then paste in my graphics program, the video portion of the screen cap is black. The header, menu bar, scroll bar, etc. of the window still show up in the screen cap -- but the entire interior is black. This happened with PrintScreen in both Firefox and Edge browsers. If I try the Windows Snipping tool, the window of the video goes blank as soon as you click "New" on the tool.
It's not a computer problem, because the borders of the window still appear in the screen cap. And screen caps in any other instance (besides streaming video) look perfectly fine. Apparently, Amazon Prime Video has found a way to enforce DRM on the screen capture ability of a Windows computer.
Has anyone else seen this? More importantly, has anyone found a workaround -- a way to un-disable the screen cap functionality for streaming video? Thanks.
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The new EU copyright law essentially outlaws memes because in order post even a picture or a screen cap, one must be the copyright holder. Keep in mind that MS operates in a world bigger than the US and must abide by EU laws as well.
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