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>youtube-dl does not circumvent any protection measures It does.

• junon 6y ago
  Where? Can you show me the code?
  • eznzt 6y ago
    YouTube uses encrypted signatures as a way of hiding the URL of the video. https://github.com/l1ving/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py#L1205-L1337 https://github.com/l1ving/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/...
    • rwmj 6y ago
      That downloads and runs a web page, the same as your browser does when it visits youtube.com.
    • ttt0 6y ago
      Hey, what's that? https://github.com/l1ving/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py#L1301 https://github.com/l1ving/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/... So if you open devtools in your web browser and go to the Network tab, where you can manually download all audio and video files -- congratulations, your browser just circumvented protection measures, because it interpreted some javascript. I guess we have to take down browsers too now. This is completely retarded.
    • 0x008 6y ago
      I love how that last line of the highlight is line 1337.
    • Rochus 6y ago
      It's like closing the door and hanging the key next to the door for all to see. Definitely not an effective technical measure to protect the house. EDIT: And not to forget that Youtube hosts many CC-BY licensed videos which explicitly allow unlimited use (incl. decryption if necessary), and that Youtube has contracts with copyright collectives in most countries so for any user it is save to assume that the video is legally uploaded (and thus download and store for personal use is legal in most countries).
      • Mindwipe 6y ago
        > (and thus download and store for personal use is legal in most countries). That's a highly questionable statement. Certainly, most European countries do not have such a law in all circumstances, and it's dependent on if the personal use copy is made of an asset you are licensed to have permanent access to (which you aren't of a collectively licensed work) or a broadcast for timeshifted purpose (which an on-demand asset isn't).
        • Rochus 6y ago
          > if the personal use copy is made of an asset you are licensed to have permanent access to Apparently you're in a Common Law country. In European countries making a copy for personal use is generally legal, unless the user should have been aware that the content was uploaded illegally; in the case of Youtube, the user may generally assume that the content has been uploaded legally, because Youtube has concluded contracts with most copyright collectives and the compensation is made in the form of a flat-rate surcharge on all storage media. In Switzerland you may even legally download illegal content for personal use and also circumvent a copy protection for the purpose of creating a personal copy. EDIT: and did I mention that I studied law in Switzerland?
        • BlueTemplar 6y ago
          YouTube makes these videos freely available. Downloading them is completely legal. (So is videotaping them with an external camera, or anything in-between.)
      • gamblor956 6y ago
        The DMCA does not require the technical measure to be highly effective, or even that it be effective at all. It simply requires that a technical measure of some sort exists. Thus, it doesn't matter that it's hanging the key next to the door; it is sufficient for the purposes of the DMCA that there is a closed door.
        • Rochus 6y ago
          https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 (a)(1)(A): No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. What you propose would lead to complete arbitrariness.