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The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press

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494 points Leftium | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 12:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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nitwit005 ◴[19 Sep 25 21:40 UTC] No.45306994[source]▶
This seems to be starting with the assumption that it's possible to prevent people from downloading the videos. That is a false assumption. You can, after all, just play the video and record it. Even if the entire machine playing the content is flawlessly locked down, you can just record the output.

The efforts at DRM done by companies like Netflix is done because the companies that licensed the content demand it. That doesn't mean the DRM works. You can find torrents of all those shows.

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dylan604 ◴[19 Sep 25 23:03 UTC] No.45307818[source]▶
> That doesn't mean the DRM works. You can find torrents of all those shows.

Causation does not mean correlation. The vast majority of content available via torrents did not come from breaking a streamer's DRM.

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nitwit005 ◴[19 Sep 25 23:13 UTC] No.45307906[source]▶
I didn't say anything about breaking the DRM. I suggested there's no reason to.
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1. pta2002 ◴[20 Sep 25 09:48 UTC] No.45311868[source]▶
Ripping the HDMI stream (which is usually still breaking DRM!) is going to force you to reencode the video which will inevitably lose quality. You might also end up with UI elements on the screen and won’t be able to get subtitles out.