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Yeah, it's kinda telling, if you look at my prime subscription for example. I can either:
Hook into the web-service with Kodi, breaking TOS and theoretically risking the account. While Google, missing their widevine tax, limits the quality.
Pirate the same content without an account, at full 4K.
It's truly a service problem.
Yes.
Not quite. The Kodi plugin still uses Widevine. You just don't get higher quality content unless your hardware is "certified" with some key burnt in at the factory, or some such nonsense.
Yes, that's what I meant by "widevine tax", the certification is done by Google for a fee.