Widevine’s end-to-end approach to encrypting copyrighted content and preventing piracy is actually quite secure, according to researchers at Fidus Information Security, who developed the PoC.

However, once Google updates the Widevine private encryption keys and content decryption module (CDM) on May 31, video streaming services using Google's DRM-protection technology will no longer ...

Widevine uses two pieces of tech to protect content: the encrypted media extensions (EME), which handle key exchanges and other high-level functions, and a content decryption module (CDM), which ...

Widevine uses encrypted media extensions to allow the content decryption module, or CDM, in your browser to communicate with the content protection systems of streaming services.