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When you watch something from Youtube in the browser, it makes copies on your computer---in memory transiently, and on disk files. Computers aren't radio or CD
by dismantlethesun 6y ago
When you watch something from Youtube in the browser, it makes copies on your computer---in memory transiently, and on disk files.
Computers aren't radio or CDs, there's no way to actually consume media on them without copies being made at some point.
Additionally, its not obvious who is infringing. Unlike say, downloading a torrent, people have legal access to youtube ordinarily, and pay for it. If you pay for offline access to music, why can't you use youtube-dl? Any infringement will only begin when your license to the content ends.
Additionally, the software just makes HTTP(s) requests and can work with any site. I actually have never used it to download anything on youtube.
- caf 6y agoDigital radios and CDs both have buffers that contain transient copies of the sound data.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> Computers aren't radio or CDs, there's no way to actually consume media on them without copies being made at some point. What caf said. There are analog radios, but there are no analog CDs; there is no way to consume anything on a CD without making a copy of it.
- anthk 6y agoWrong. Linux: ioctl CDROMPLAYMSF https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/userspace-api/ioctl/cdrom.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/userspace-api/ioctl/c... OpenBSD has cdio(1), IDK about the API. After running these IDE commands, the CD contents would be streamed thru the analog output.
- toast0 6y agoThe CD rom drive having copied sectors, error corrected each sector and then DACed it to the analog outputs. It's not like a record or a cassete tape or a laserdisc (I think), where you can build a system with amplifiers only and no copies or sampling.
- anthk 6y agoEh, not always. Older CD drives didn't have the many correction/anti-skip tecniques you had in example in modern discmans.