Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by salawat on Saturday October 24, 2020 @12:02AM
(#24876842)
Ah, but it isn't the copyright owner putting it in place. YouTube is. Therefore, it's just a protocol quirk of speaking YouTube.
You can say it's a selling point meant to entice ordered an the pot for rightsholders, but frankly, there is nothing but bandwidth consumption, storage, and processing limits that keeps anyone from just fuzzing the CDN namespace.
Stop thinking keys to locks. YouTube isn't there for that. I can pull off the equivalent of driving a fleet of minivans up and walking out with copies of the drives if no one else is eating up the bandwidth for long enough.
You can say it's a selling point meant to entice ordered an the pot for rightsholders, but frankly, there is nothing but bandwidth consumption, storage, and processing limits that keeps anyone from just fuzzing the CDN namespace.
Stop thinking keys to locks. YouTube isn't there for that. I can pull off the equivalent of driving a fleet of minivans up and walking out with copies of the drives if no one else is eating up the bandwidth for long enough.