Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by ldarby on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:49PM
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> why is my browser not similarly circumventing this protection?
Because your browser also runs the javascript that displays the ads (unless you've also blocked them, which I think could also be considered a "circumvention measure", IANAL).
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by jimktrains2 on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:53PM
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If ads we're required, they could certainly not stream a video until the ads have been watched (or at least downloaded and the correct amount of time has passed), they could also insert ads as segments of video without having to transcode all videos for every user, but they don't.
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by anticensor on Saturday October 24, 2020 @06:06AM
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> they could also insert ads as segments of video without having to transcode all videos for every user
That would work in a livestream very well, but not in a video. Imagine everyone getting adverts in the voice of live streamer in the different times of the livestream, and live chat getting time-dilated to compensate, without the streamer itself noticing.
At least with CSS a key needed to be found by means separate from actually watching the DVD and wasn't shipped with the user in the same package as the video itself.