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Re:The RIAA’s attack on YouTube-dl is not a DMCA 512 infring... by sjy on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:49AM (#24893736)
> Are only gui based webbrowsers with large market share the only legal way to access multimedia content?

I believe they are the only supported way to access content on YouTube. As for whether the unofficial ways to access YouTube are legal, that depends on whether they circumvent a “technological measure that effectively controls access” [1] to copyrighted works. That’s not so clear, but YouTube does obfuscate its code to make the task of tools like youtube-dl harder.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

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Re:The RIAA’s attack on YouTube-dl is not a DMCA 512 infring... by jk700 on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:15AM (#24895269)
> That’s not so clear, but YouTube does obfuscate its code to make the task of tools like youtube-dl harder.

Not for tools like youtube-dl, but for tools that let user manually extract links, such as viewing the source code of the document. Because YouTube also provides an algorithm to deobfuscate it, which humans can't run in their heads, but tools, browsers can.

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