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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…