Fucking pieces of shit. Should not be this angry while drunk at nearly 4 in the night.

  • fx8690gii [he/him, he/him]
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    4 years ago

    But, youtube-dl doesn't have any DRM circumvention. How can they argue that this "circumvents the technological protection measures used by authorized streaming services"?

      • RussianEngineer [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        imagine trying to get basic linux commands banned. then again i put nothing above companies these days

      • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Things like wget and curl could genuinely be at risk.

        Those would at least have legal backing from the FSF or something.

      • cadence [they/them,she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Not quite - on some videos, the stream URLs sent to the browser are encrypted with an algorithm that can be decrypted just fine in the browser, but takes a fair bit of reverse engineering to make it work in other places. Not defending the RIAA here lol but it's quite a bit more than "doesn't have a download button".

    • post_trains [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Right? I'm downloading it to my computer when I watch the video in a browser. That's how streaming works. There's no DRM unless you count "mild inconvenience" as a DRM measure.

    • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      i would guess it's because they sell youtube a license for streaming, and downloading isn't covered by that or some shit

          • read_freire [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            sure and it's another example of the fundamental contradiction of DRM (all the more glaring when you're trying to use DRM to enforce IP over the wire), which is what I'm getting at