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This thread is about YouTube. But the videos you mentioned are fine and no one would call right clicking on a video and downloading it a DRM violation. But I'm
by biofunsf 3y ago
This thread is about YouTube. But the videos you mentioned are fine and no one would call right clicking on a video and downloading it a DRM violation.
But I'm quite confident you can't view or download YouTube videos if your browser doesn't run JavaScript. They require the client evaluate intentionally obfuscated JS in order to determine the video content URL's signature. Whether this counts as DRM or not, I don't know, and I hope it doesn't, but it's clear that YouTube is making it difficult intentionally.
- pests 3y agoYes, this is a thread about YouTube. Why are we confirming this? I meant no JavaScript as in me meddling with the js.
- biofunsf 3y agoOh apologizes! When you said you don't interact with JavaScript I thought this meant you didn't run JS but I see your point now. You can right click on YouTube videos to download them? That sounds slick! How did you set this up? Is something YouTube-specific happening or is it generalized and just happens to work on YouTube? That's totally something I'd like. I have no idea what that means legally, but to me it certainly supports the argument that doing something so simple clearly isn't bypass DRM/violating the DMCA. (though I'm sure the media industry would argue that whatever browser/extension making this possible is guilty of defeating DRM. )