On: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

[arvindamirtaa]

Nonetheless, the underlying point holds. If youtube didn't want people downloading it's videos, it's trivial from them to close that up.

[kevin_thibedeau → arvindamirtaa]

It isn't trivial for them to break platforms that won't get new YouTube apps.

[Mindwipe → kevin_thibedeau]

YouTube have only been permitting YouTube apps on platforms that support Widevine DLM for a long time now.

I suspect they are just waiting for the percentage of older clients in use to fall a little bit further, but the plan is pretty clear.

[ric2b → Mindwipe]

I keep refusing to enable DRM on Firefox. Hopefully there are enough people like me to matter.

[corobo → arvindamirtaa]

They did do that. That's why youtube-dl exists..

[arvindamirtaa → corobo]

youtube-dl doesn't "hack" into Youtube. The process isn't anything that you can't do manually using chrome dev tools.

[corobo → arvindamirtaa]

Congratulations on being the millionth person to say that, not one has given instructions on how to do it.

How would you go about putting a DASH stream together in dev tools?

Side note I didn't say hack, nor did the parent. Who are you quoting?