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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/Thosepassionfruits on 2023-07-09 19:38:56+00:00.


I’m enrolled in an online 10 week course that’s intended to prep me for a niche professional certification exam. The course is moving too fast for me to keep up with while working full time and taking care of family and the course cost me a $1000 enrollment fee that my company will not reimburse me for.

The course came with a big warning at the start stating “Any attempt to record or download lectures will result in access being revoked immediately.” I don’t know if the website the lecture videos are posted on actually has any way to detect screen recording software like OBS but I don’t want to raw dog it and risk losing access.

There shouldn't be any way for them to detect recording software if I play the lectures within a virtual machine and record it on my host computer right? The website doesn't install any software, it's all played through my default browser of Firefox.

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[–] EliteCow 1 points 2 years ago

If you're using a VM to view the course and recording with software outside of the VM, I highly doubt they would be able to detect it. Likely they have some software installed on your internal machine that detects programs running or interacting with the service/application.