We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.
This is not limited to yt-dlp. Tests have been run with the same account on various official YouTube TV clients (PS3, web browser, apple tv) and they are also only getting DRM formats for videos.
We live in hell-world.
Theyre adding DRM to videos they don’t own. Sounds like a lawsuit
Terms and conditions. What’s yours is theirs.
They do own them, though. That’s what happens when you upload content to Youtube. Or virtually any other website, for that matter.
Nope. The person who uploads the video owns the copyright/IP. Seems like they should have say in if theres DRM on their IP.
Yeah but the YT terms explicitly say that you give them a worldwide royalty free license to do whatever the fuck they want.
Content creators have no say.
Screw them! We’ll build our own peertube, with blackjack, and hookers
Of course. The YT-DLP team by refusing to support DRM videos gave Google a huge neon sign that said this is the one thing that will shut them down, the line they won’t cross. Google has targeted the big front end instances with rate limits and blocks and this is the next step.
Our only hope really is that the current YT-DLP team hands the reins over to people in countries that don’t give a shit about copyright and they put back in the ability to download and decrypt DRM protected video.
I mean, that’s basically how yt-dlp came to be. They took over when yt-download couldn’t keep up anymore. I hate this time, it will take a while until the best successor is found.
From yt-dlp’s software license:
Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.
My only hope is that Google goes bankrupt and people migrate to other places, but sadly that’s not feasible atm.
Google going bankrupt would almost certainly mean YouTube disappears. Which can happen, but it’s not a good thing
In the good timeline, multiple governments and international organizations launch peertube servers.
Probably not this timeline though.
