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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by Asooka on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:06PM (#24875324)
Hm, but youtube-dl doesn't break DRM. You can just get the video link from the dev tools panel when you open a youtube page. It doesn't let you download anything you wouldn't otherwise be able to.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by Mindwipe on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:41AM (#24877222)
DRM is ultimately mostly obfuscation. And access to the video fragments in YouTube is heavily obfuscated.

There's very little case law on what the exact level of protection required to qualify, but I wouldn't want to go to court defending myself offer it. It's very risky.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by Reelin on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:17PM (#24875410)
Have you actually tried that lately? Particularly with a DASH stream? (Not that DASH itself is intended as DRM, but just that it's no longer anywhere near as simple as querying a single URL.)
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by arvindamirtaa on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:13PM (#24876084)
Nonetheless, the underlying point holds. If youtube didn't want people downloading it's videos, it's trivial from them to close that up.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by kevin_thibedeau on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:28PM (#24876710)
It isn't trivial for them to break platforms that won't get new YouTube apps.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by Mindwipe on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:43AM (#24877228)
YouTube have only been permitting YouTube apps on platforms that support Widevine DLM for a long time now.

I suspect they are just waiting for the percentage of older clients in use to fall a little bit further, but the plan is pretty clear.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by ric2b on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @08:51AM (#24906896)
I keep refusing to enable DRM on Firefox. Hopefully there are enough people like me to matter.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by corobo on Saturday October 24, 2020 @09:19AM (#24879021)
They did do that. That's why youtube-dl exists..
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by arvindamirtaa on Saturday October 24, 2020 @03:56PM (#24881557)
youtube-dl doesn't "hack" into Youtube. The process isn't anything that you can't do manually using chrome dev tools.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by corobo on Sunday October 25, 2020 @08:52AM (#24885925)
Congratulations on being the millionth person to say that, not one has given instructions on how to do it.

How would you go about putting a DASH stream together in dev tools?

Side note I didn't say hack, nor did the parent. Who are you quoting?

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