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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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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.
Theyre adding DRM to videos they don’t own. Sounds like a lawsuit
They most certainly have this covered in ToS. IP law is not about actual creators’ rights.
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.
Yeah but the YT terms explicitly say that you give them a worldwide royalty free license to do whatever the fuck they want.
Content creators have no say.
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.
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
In the good timeline, multiple governments and international organizations launch peertube servers.
Probably not this timeline though.
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.
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.
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
We live in hell-world.
Yes. Yes, we do.
Praying for Smarttube
Screw them! We’ll build our own peertube, with blackjack, and hookers
Peer to the best f****** amazing, But your average windows user isn’t going to be able to mention 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.
Discovery is a major hurdle. There are plenty of instances that don’t have NSFW you should poke around to find something suitable.
