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YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI
itsfoss.com/news/yt-dlp-ifpi-piracy-watchlist/Replying to @Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca
Can it download any of those paid movies? That might be the only thing that makes sense
Replying to @Vince@lemmy.world
I mean technically speaking unless you have permission of the copyright owner to download their video any tool you use to download (almost) any YouTube video would be a piracy tool.
Replying to @evidences@lemmy.world
Nnnnnnope. Time shifting.
Replying to @LodeMike@lemmy.today
Time shifting?
Replying to @evidences@lemmy.world
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_shifting
It’s why DVRing is legal. This tool is no different functionally than a screen recorder pointed at the video. That’s how they used to work, but that changed once TV went digital (they don’t reencode, they store the pre-compressed segments.
Replying to @LodeMike@lemmy.today
Ok that’s fun I was unaware of this term. It’s kind of interesting though to apply the term to something like digital streaming media that’s already, for lack of a better term, pre time-shifted.
Replying to @evidences@lemmy.world
Interesting idea. If i subscribe to a streaming service for one month, i can save 31 days * 24 hours of content for later viewing. That would keep ke going quite a while since i only have the time to watch tv for a couple of hours per night…
Your web browser necessarily has to download a YouTube video in order to display it to you. It just doesn’t provide an easy way for that data to be more than ephemeral.
Replying to @subignition@piefed.social
Going to YouTube and having your browser download the video so you can watch it would be an approved way to download the video, making further copies of it more than likely not.
Replying to @evidences@lemmy.world
YT-DLP doesn’t make further copies. It downloads a video file from YouTube the exact same way your browser does.