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youtube’s been testing various ways of limiting access, both for downloaders and real users with adblockers most fucked up experiment being forced DRM for ALL videos, even those that are licensed as CC: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563 feels like it will only get worse from now on 🫠

If rolled out widely, this would make web browsers and third-party YouTube clients without a DRM license unusable for YouTube playback, download, etc. This would include almost all open-source web browsers and almost all third-party YouTube clients. Archive link to reddit post about this

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Why would it kill YouTube?

    Spotify has DRM for all of their songs, it has not killed music streaming.

    What this actually does is make it formally illegal to rip YouTube videos (circumventing DRM is against DMCA). It’s also a shot against youtube-dlp, which refuses to cross the line of cracking the DRM, which would be doable, but they don’t want to on account of the legal issue.