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And other browsers could just extract the key and ship it as well.


I'm assuming there would be some kind of algorithm to generate the encrypted key.


The algorithm has to be seeded with a secret (Stream ciphers work this way). You can't get around having to have Chome own a secret, and it's really hard to protect a secret when you're in a hostile environment (e.g. the user's PC). This is part of what makes DRM really hard.


And get sued for doing so.




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