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It stops plenty of piracy as without it piracy could be as easy as a single click from a place like Netflix, Google Music, etc. Just because it's easy for you

It stops plenty of piracy as without it piracy could be as easy as a single click from a place like Netflix, Google Music, etc. Just because it's easy for you to circumvent doesn't mean it's easy for the everyday user. But totally agreed that it doesn't belong in web standards.

surge 13y ago
It is now anyway, even with DRM. Actually Netflix is easier then pirating, which is now why Netflix consumes more traffic than torrents.
betterunix 13y ago
"Just because it's easy for you to circumvent doesn't mean it's easy for the everyday user." All it takes is for one person to circumvent it and the whole system crumbles. Which is the current state of affairs.
LinXitoW 13y ago
I don't know about "normal" people, but all the pointless shit they put on Blurays made me go BACK to piracy. I started my first real job 2 years ago, so i felt i should buy my movies. Turns out, Blurays are EVEN WORSE than DVDs. Nonstop trailers, that use your bandwidth to download new fucking trailers, a hundred warnings about piracy and a DRM that requires constant annoying updates and a crappy PowerDVD software. If i sound angry, it's because i am.
fafner 13y ago
Everyday users fail at saving a youtube video. And someone who knows how to rip a youtube video usually also knows about pirate bay or other pirate websites.
- seabee 13y ago
  Even worse, there's a whole bunch of malware Youtube downloader programs/browser plugins. It's pretty crazy but using TPB is at least easier and safer.
vertex-four 13y ago
> It stops plenty of piracy as without it piracy could be as easy as a single click from a place like Netflix, Google Music, etc. It... actually is already at this point. I can find any song, any TV show, and any film, available to stream instantly on Youtube of all places. This isn't a shady torrent site, it's a Google-owned property. In the music sphere, Grooveshark has every song you could think of, and is claimed to fail to comply with the licensing requirements of the copyright owners, and is thus being sued over it. There is little or no reason that a similar service could not pop up for video, aside from the fact that bandwidth is costly, and I'm sure that could be resolved to an extent through some form of torrent-over-WebRTC system.

surge 13y ago

It is now anyway, even with DRM. Actually Netflix is easier then pirating, which is now why Netflix consumes more traffic than torrents.

betterunix 13y ago

"Just because it's easy for you to circumvent doesn't mean it's easy for the everyday user." All it takes is for one person to circumvent it and the whole system crumbles. Which is the current state of affairs.

LinXitoW 13y ago

I don't know about "normal" people, but all the pointless shit they put on Blurays made me go BACK to piracy. I started my first real job 2 years ago, so i felt i should buy my movies. Turns out, Blurays are EVEN WORSE than DVDs. Nonstop trailers, that use your bandwidth to download new fucking trailers, a hundred warnings about piracy and a DRM that requires constant annoying updates and a crappy PowerDVD software. If i sound angry, it's because i am.

fafner 13y ago

Everyday users fail at saving a youtube video. And someone who knows how to rip a youtube video usually also knows about pirate bay or other pirate websites.

seabee 13y ago
Even worse, there's a whole bunch of malware Youtube downloader programs/browser plugins. It's pretty crazy but using TPB is at least easier and safer.

vertex-four 13y ago

> It stops plenty of piracy as without it piracy could be as easy as a single click from a place like Netflix, Google Music, etc. It... actually is already at this point. I can find any song, any TV show, and any film, available to stream instantly on Youtube of all places. This isn't a shady torrent site, it's a Google-owned property. In the music sphere, Grooveshark has every song you could think of, and is claimed to fail to comply with the licensing requirements of the copyright owners, and is thus being sued over it. There is little or no reason that a similar service could not pop up for video, aside from the fact that bandwidth is costly, and I'm sure that could be resolved to an extent through some form of torrent-over-WebRTC system.