Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2mo ago

[YouTube] DRM on ALL videos with tv (TVHTML5) client- yt-dlp

github.com [YouTube] DRM on ALL videos with `tv` (TVHTML5) client · Issue #12563 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Checklist I'm reporting that yt-dlp is broken on a supported site I've verified that I have updated yt-dlp to nightly or master (update instructions) I've checked that all provided URLs are playabl...

We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.

This is not limited to yt-dlp. Tests have been run with the same account on various official YouTube TV clients (PS3, web browser, apple tv) and they are also only getting DRM formats for videos.

We live in hell-world.

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Theyre adding DRM to videos they don't own. Sounds like a lawsuit
- Terms and conditions. What's yours is theirs.
- They do own them, though. That's what happens when you upload content to Youtube. Or virtually any other website, for that matter.
  
  Nope. The person who uploads the video owns the copyright/IP. Seems like they should have say in if theres DRM on their IP.
- They most certainly have this covered in ToS. IP law is not about actual creators' rights.
Screw them! We'll build our own peertube, with blackjack, and hookers
- Peertube is f****** amazing, But your average windows user isn't going to be able to manage the hosting. And your average ISP blocks standard hosting ports. Then it also requires the users to manage their own monetization.
  
  It's not undoable but it is kind of a steep slope.
  
  You can use an already hosted instance, there is no need to selfhost every service.
  
  I joined it but the main feed was just a lot of NSFW content.... So made it kind of awkward for discovery.
  
  Everyone doesn't have to host their own instance.
Of course. The YT-DLP team by refusing to support DRM videos gave Google a huge neon sign that said this is the one thing that will shut them down, the line they won’t cross. Google has targeted the big front end instances with rate limits and blocks and this is the next step.

Our only hope really is that the current YT-DLP team hands the reins over to people in countries that don’t give a shit about copyright and they put back in the ability to download and decrypt DRM protected video.
- From yt-dlp's software license:
  
  Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.
- they have a plugin system. afaik drm breaking features could ve kept in a plugin they dont have to touch
  
  if that's true that was a smart move, they seen this coming and made precautions
- I mean, that's basically how yt-dlp came to be. They took over when yt-download couldn't keep up anymore. I hate this time, it will take a while until the best successor is found.
- My only hope is that Google goes bankrupt and people migrate to other places, but sadly that's not feasible atm.
  
  Google going bankrupt would almost certainly mean YouTube disappears. Which can happen, but it's not a good thing
- The YT-DLP team by refusing to support DRM videos
  
  If they did this they could be sued for the exact same reason Yuzu got sued: circumvention of DRM. That's a crime in the USA. Apparently.
i've been half-expecting them to roll-out drm for everything including cat videos and shit for awhile now.
We live in hell-world.

Yes. Yes, we do.
Praying for Smarttube
Motherfucker I'd better get started archiving
Wouldn't surprise me if they did this to hamper other companies easily scrubbing videos for AI training
I wanted to archive a few channels, but was stopped by the lack of storage. Guess I'm out of luck as my storage upgrade is a long while away :(
- With yt-dlp you can DL the videos at lower resolution / quality, so that at least you can have one offline working copy in the meantime.
- Archive.org has a lot of storage.
@SnotFlickerman sure it gets harder with DRM, but they will just make DRM break accessible to anyone..

This is my contribution https://github.com/MalMen/HellYes/
- Hell yes!

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