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Hm, but youtube-dl doesn't break DRM. You can just get the video link from the dev tools panel when you open a youtube page. It doesn't let you download anythin
by Asooka 6y ago
Hm, but youtube-dl doesn't break DRM. You can just get the video link from the dev tools panel when you open a youtube page. It doesn't let you download anything you wouldn't otherwise be able to.
- Reelin 6y agoHave you actually tried that lately? Particularly with a DASH stream? (Not that DASH itself is intended as DRM, but just that it's no longer anywhere near as simple as querying a single URL.)
- arvindamirtaa 6y agoNonetheless, the underlying point holds. If youtube didn't want people downloading it's videos, it's trivial from them to close that up.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoIt isn't trivial for them to break platforms that won't get new YouTube apps.
- Mindwipe 6y agoYouTube have only been permitting YouTube apps on platforms that support Widevine DLM for a long time now. I suspect they are just waiting for the percentage of older clients in use to fall a little bit further, but the plan is pretty clear.
- ric2b 6y agoI keep refusing to enable DRM on Firefox. Hopefully there are enough people like me to matter.
- corobo 6y agoThey did do that. That's why youtube-dl exists..
- arvindamirtaa 6y agoyoutube-dl doesn't "hack" into Youtube. The process isn't anything that you can't do manually using chrome dev tools.
- corobo 6y agoCongratulations on being the millionth person to say that, not one has given instructions on how to do it. How would you go about putting a DASH stream together in dev tools? Side note I didn't say hack, nor did the parent. Who are you quoting?
- Mindwipe 6y agoDRM is ultimately mostly obfuscation. And access to the video fragments in YouTube is heavily obfuscated. There's very little case law on what the exact level of protection required to qualify, but I wouldn't want to go to court defending myself offer it. It's very risky.