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Fucking pieces of shit. Should not be this angry while drunk at nearly 4 in the night.
The idea is that because YouTube doesn’t have a download button, anything that lets you save content is a circumvention.
It’s bad faith bullshit, intentional misrepresentation of how technology works, but that’s the RIAA’s whole deal.
Edit: If this holds up, and it likely will because the ytdl developers don’t have the means to fight it, it will set an extremely dangerous precedent. Things like wget and curl could genuinely be at risk.
Not quite - on some videos, the stream URLs sent to the browser are encrypted with an algorithm that can be decrypted just fine in the browser, but takes a fair bit of reverse engineering to make it work in other places. Not defending the RIAA here lol but it's quite a bit more than "doesn't have a download button".
The idea is that because YouTube doesn’t have a download button, anything that lets you save content is a circumvention.
It’s bad faith bullshit, intentional misrepresentation of how technology works, but that’s the RIAA’s whole deal.
Edit: If this holds up, and it likely will because the ytdl developers don’t have the means to fight it, it will set an extremely dangerous precedent. Things like
wgetandcurlcould genuinely be at risk.imagine trying to get basic linux commands banned. then again i put nothing above companies these days
Those would at least have legal backing from the FSF or something.
Not quite - on some videos, the stream URLs sent to the browser are encrypted with an algorithm that can be decrypted just fine in the browser, but takes a fair bit of reverse engineering to make it work in other places. Not defending the RIAA here lol but it's quite a bit more than "doesn't have a download button".