Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters

Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by Spivak on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:20PM (#29928420)

I mean eventually it’s gonna be YouTube only sends a DRM video stream and then the problem is done. Okay sure pirates will still exist but casual piracy got harder which is the point. DRM doesn’t try to put the genie back in the bottle, it only makes the path of least resistance going through legal channels.

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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by copperx on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:37PM (#29928574)

I'm actually surprised it hasn't happened yet. There must be some technical reason for that.

Is Widevine problematic?

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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by spartanatreyu on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:47PM (#29928661)

It would affect the people it's intended to be used on the least, and affect the people it's not intended to be used on the most.

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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by 5e92cb50239222b on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:10AM (#29931136)

You're pretty much describing DRM in a nutshell. This limitation never stopped it in the past.

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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by bubblethink on Thursday January 13, 2022 @09:27PM (#29929915)

This is a good point. Yes, in theory chrome and android are big enough now that youtube could add widevine and there won't be a significant impact to their bottom line. Maybe there are still old devices that are running obsolete/frozen versions of youtube devices. Or more optimistically, there are still trace amounts of 'don't be evil' left at google.

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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by Aerroon on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:23PM (#29930569)

Wouldn't they get sued for anticompetitive practices though? If other browsers/devices can't view the content then it seems like they would have a point.

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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by dubiousconst281 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:40PM (#29929095)

Widevine is a joke, L3 at least. You can easily dump all video and audio frames by hooking into Chromium's CDM wrapper.

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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by easrng on Thursday January 13, 2022 @10:47PM (#29930388)

And nobody cares about L2, and manufacturers have awful security and accidentally leak L1 keys all the time.

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