YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by mulmen on Saturday October 24, 2020 @03:43AM (#24877627)

Streaming is not exclusively live video. Streaming is viewing the file as it downloads. As a stream. The alternative is what we did in the dark ages. Download the entire file before beginning playback.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by fnord123 on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:12AM (#24877717)

Even in the dark ages (e.g. '97) we could watch the fragment of the avi videos as they downloaded.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by mulmen on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:53AM (#24877869)

‘97 is classic antiquity. The dark ages came later, after civilization fell. We obtained WMVs from Kazaa because that’s all that was left.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by xdavidliu on Saturday October 24, 2020 @08:32AM (#24878791)

I myself preferred realplayer ("buffering...") and its more advanced cousin realplayer G2.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by richardfey on Saturday October 24, 2020 @07:29AM (#24878521)

From what I remember WMVs were mostly fake so I would never download them

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by michaelmrose on Saturday October 24, 2020 @02:31PM (#24881021)

WMVs can embed instructions on where to grab codecs or authorization to play the content in the multimedia. Back in the day if you played WMV with windows media player this could be used to pwn your computer.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by kevinhq on Saturday October 24, 2020 @05:26AM (#24877997)

damn. then I've been living through those ages. I feel old.

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