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.
They don’t, but how long do you think a free instance is going to last when it starts seeing serious volume. Video storage in the cloud is expensive AF.
Odysee did/does something interesting where if one uses the desktop client, the video gets streamed and cached, and then seeded back over a configurable amount of time. I could see creator’s communities being self-sustainable this way.
Odyssey was a technical failure. They pushed pretty hard to get the community into it but once it reached even a slightly elevated usage, They had to start standing up servers to back the swarm.
I believe it can work but they didn’t crack the nut on that unfortunately, At least not before the SEC brok in and riped them a new one for selling securities basically destroyed the backing company.