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Re:New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1 by boomboomsubban on Sunday November 01, 2020 @10:58AM (#24960304)
Youtube-dl enables things that should just be allowed across the internet. The "hope it doesn't get noticed" strategy is optically terrible and generally set up to fail.

Even if you are against these downloads, there are laws that let you prohibit such downloads by using DRM. Ignoring those laws or trying to claim that publicly available links count as DRM means these programs should be allowed.

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Re:New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1 by daniellarusso on Sunday November 01, 2020 @12:17PM (#24960902)
The concept of streaming always seemed a bit dumb to me, in terms of environmental costs and just plain efficiency.

The constraint on the majority of cases is bandwidth, not storage.

For mobile, that is not necessarily true, I concede.

From a purely technical perspective, streaming makes little sense.

This is really a manifestation of legal constructs.

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