Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by MereInterest on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:05PM
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"Preventing" is not the same as failing to enable. As far as I know, there's nothing that youtube has implemented that prevents downloading. It is simply inconvenient as a result of not being the primary goal.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by jonas21 on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:13PM
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There's an encrypted signature in the response from YouTube that youtube_dl decrypts in order to request the video content.
Perhaps it's not a super-sophisticated technical measure if youtube-dl was able to defeat it -- but it's a technical measure nonetheless.