If you are really interested in scraping a copy, the HDCP keys were leaked at some point and you can buy "HDMI splitters <wink>" for ~$30 which will remove the encryption. Now trivially bypassed, and a pain in the butt for everyone else.
That was for an old version of HDCP up to 1080p, right ? Not to mention, capping and transcoding is tedious and will alter the quality. I doubt if anyone still does it as there seem to be better exploits for the determined.
There are splitters that can do 4K 60Hz HDCP 2.2. You had to really search for them because AliExpress used to remove listings that mentioned this feature explicitly. HDFury devices will do HDCP 2.3 -> 1.4 conversion (at which point you can just use a HDCP 1.4 splitter/stripper).
Due to the amount of very high quality files you have on torrenting sites, L1 is being broken already indeed, they just don't publish the methods and devices they are using for that so they don't get patched.
VGA won't create that "full chain of trust" parent is talking about. The GPU essentially says if it's outputting to an HDCP (encrypted) output and if so is expecting encrypted input. As an example if you use an HDMI -> DVI adapter or similar you'll get a scrambled-ish looking picture which is essentially you viewing the ciphertext picture.
Which is pretty dramatic, assuming you don't want absurdly large files.
Where do you see webrips in 2022? Looking on BTN, I only see webrips for public broadcast content that literally nobody cares about. Everything else is decrypted streams (WEB-DL).
The big p2p groups with WV keys are decrypting just about everything, scene groups desperate for a reason to exist after getting utterly outdone by the p2p crowd are releasing webrips of content nobody wants.
