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YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI (itsfoss.com)
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[–] 19 points 1 month ago (11 children)

It cannot.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Then it's not piracy.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (7 children)

    It's not piracy anyway even if that worked as the owner isn't being deprived of what they own.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    That's not what piracy is, though. That's why piracy isn't theft.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

    Piracy is an act of robbery on the high seas.

    Robbery is larceny from the person or presence of another by violence or threat.

    Larceny is the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    In this context, we are referring to the "Copyright or patent infringement" definition, which is not theft.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    That's not directed at you specifically.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    technically it can, but not for free. if you have a subscription to access the media, the site is supported and drm-free, and you have a way to pass the account credentials to yt-dlp, it will download. if it plays inside a browser with drm disabled, yt-dlp can likely get it for you. you could download stuff from crunchyroll that way before they added drm. if it does have drm, you can still download the encrypted stream and decrypt it later with something like gpac if you have the keys, but that's a bit besides the point.

    however there's very little supported sites now that have paid subscriptions and no drm. and in neither case is yt-dlp circumventing anything, it cannot access something you had no access to in the first place.

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