**this seems to be the theme of the season mateys**

mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 1517 points –

wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

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Honestly I think I'll go full hoarder with YouTube archivist and find a way to stream/synchronize on my devices. I mostly use YouTube to go to sleep so there is no way I go back to videos being interrupted by loud ass ads.

i don't want to be a buzz kill but if this train continue its course i am afraid that they gonna do something about youtube-dl

they wouldn't be able to do anything. youtube-dl doesn't use an API or anything like that, it just streams the video like a browser would and rips the stream. if they somehow actually managed to selectively block youtube-dl, all youtube-dl would have to do is send a different user agent. the only defense against stream ripping in general is to not stream anything at all, which Youtube obviously cannot do

No, when they decide to end yt-dl (and similar tools) they will just enable DRM on all videos, rather than just the pay-per-view videos. The infrastructure already exists for Netflix-like DRM on YouTube. If they are serious about cracking down on ad blocking then it is a matter of time before they throw that switch.

And yet somehow you're still able to rip video from places like Netflix.

There's always a way around it. It's simply a cat and mouse game.

There are tools to record mediocre quality video from Netflix (flixgrab) and there is an exploit that the scene groups use to nab webdls but there's nothing quality for normal users.

Do you have some links about this new DRM for youtube? If it's true its very sad indeed.

When will the internet bless us with a good yt competitor

No, I've seen no plans to expand DRM on YouTube but the paid videos have been DRM from the start, so they very much have the software internally in place to do it. And third party apps using a YouTube-dl backend provide a workaround against ad blocker bans so if they're serious about this....

i agree that stopping stream ripping is indeed impossible ,what i am afraid (and think) that they gonna put small hurdles in the way until they become a big shore to overcome and this is a worst case scenario but may be they gonna implement DRM like netflix does in the future

And then there will be another fork that does something about their something. Just like what happened to Vanced, for example.

There would always be some ways to save the video as long as it's played on your machine

What's happened with invidious suggests it's already starting in that regard.

Protip: On Peertube (at least for now), you can sync channels really easily so you can get a full archive of a good channel.

This is what I'm doing since the elsagate scandal, and a recent one where there was an ad of an obese dude jacking off (I'm in the middle east, this happened about 6 months ago).

I just automate the downloads of new youtube videos and let use jellyfin to watch it.

I don’t use youtube much, but I had to selfhost because the youtube kids app is fucking nasty. I have my pihole block youtube domains for my kid's device (firewall does captive dns/redirection of all dns requests to pihole).

My child likes dr binocs and brave wilderness.