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Hm, but youtube-dl doesn't break DRM. You can just get the video link from the dev tools panel when you open a youtube page. It doesn't let you download anything you wouldn't otherwise be able to.


DRM is ultimately mostly obfuscation. And access to the video fragments in YouTube is heavily obfuscated.

There's very little case law on what the exact level of protection required to qualify, but I wouldn't want to go to court defending myself offer it. It's very risky.


Have you actually tried that lately? Particularly with a DASH stream? (Not that DASH itself is intended as DRM, but just that it's no longer anywhere near as simple as querying a single URL.)


Nonetheless, the underlying point holds. If youtube didn't want people downloading it's videos, it's trivial from them to close that up.


It isn't trivial for them to break platforms that won't get new YouTube apps.


YouTube have only been permitting YouTube apps on platforms that support Widevine DLM for a long time now.

I suspect they are just waiting for the percentage of older clients in use to fall a little bit further, but the plan is pretty clear.


I keep refusing to enable DRM on Firefox. Hopefully there are enough people like me to matter.


They did do that. That's why youtube-dl exists..


youtube-dl doesn't "hack" into Youtube. The process isn't anything that you can't do manually using chrome dev tools.


Congratulations on being the millionth person to say that, not one has given instructions on how to do it.

How would you go about putting a DASH stream together in dev tools?

Side note I didn't say hack, nor did the parent. Who are you quoting?




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