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Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

kortilla wrote: post #137
ramraj07 wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pirate if you want (and can) but let’s not keep persisting the myth that these companies are being unreasonable. The average family paid 100 for cable and on top kept buying dvds for 10-20 a pop. These streamers are just trying to replicate that level of spending (and for the most part, failing).

> The average family paid 100 for cable and on top kept buying dvds for 10-20 a pop. Lol, no way in hell that was the average. That was the high end dream consumer that very few of the people I knew matched even back in cable’s heyday. https://www.statista.com/statistics/680645/number-of-cable-s... In my family we would rent lots of movies each week with an 2-3 times a week ritual trip to the video rental store to pi…

probably it was the average family but not the median family, which of course means that the high end dream consumer family was paying much more than that.

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by antman »

Crazyontap wrote: post #6

One of the best layman hacks to rip all these services is still using ffmpeg/sse with Xvfb. They can DRM and engineer all they want but nobody can stop me from recording what's playing on my screen :D

Very easy to customise script xvfb browser recording here: https://github.com/grayleonard/xvfb-record

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by katbyte »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #162
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember when the Covenant Kodi plugin was thriving and the media companies hadn't waged legal-nuclear war against that sort of thing yet? It finally felt like the future: I could watch anything , in any language it was available in, right now, in my chosen quality, with automatic subtitle downloads if you want that sort of thing. I would pay good money for a service that could do that legitimately, but no, we can't…

Copyright holders will never be able to compete with piracy. It's impossible. Imagine what it'd take for them to actually offer a service that can even begin to compare with what copyright infringement makes possible. They'd have to pool all their intellectual property into a single holding and offer access to all of it at once. Piracy offers us all the works of humanity, everything ever created. These copyright hold…

Games and music seem to have managed to defeat piracy. And when it was just Netflix before the fragmentation and greed of the movie/tv content holders no one I knew downloaded.

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by nebula8804 »

Jamie9912 wrote: post #35
Aisen8010 wrote: post #23

Any suggestions for downloading the playlists from Spotify?

For ripping the actual audio stream I used this on a 800+ song playlist, took over 24 hours but still worked: https://github.com/eviabs/downtify-premium

Can you try ripping a Joe Rogan episode with your setup? His podcast introduces ads even if you pay and while yt-dlp worked for a while now they are encrypting with Widevine (for supposedly his podcast only).

Here is a link to an episode to test: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DsunsN5MGI0CWwvuaxZdt

To date I have not found a way to rip this other than recording the episode on Desktop. The main use case for me is that when I am driving, I hate when it randomly stops the podcast to talk about some underwear brand and it is hard to skip and not cause an accident. :)

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by nebula8804 »

yogeshimac wrote: post #105
Aisen8010 wrote: post #23

Any suggestions for downloading the playlists from Spotify?

ZSpotify

Does this work for podcasts? Would you be able to try ripping a Joe Rogan episode with this app to test? They use widewine and so it breaks yt-dlp. They play ads even if you pay for a subscription.

Here is an example link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DsunsN5MGI0CWwvuaxZdt

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Post by nebula8804 »

bendauphinee wrote: post #60
Aisen8010 wrote: post #23

Any suggestions for downloading the playlists from Spotify?

SidifySpotifyMusic. Good enough that I pay for a license.

Does this work for podcasts? Would you be able to try ripping a Joe Rogan episode with this app to test? They use widewine and so it breaks yt-dlp. They play ads even if you pay for a subscription. Here is an example link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DsunsN5MGI0CWwvuaxZdt

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by shoghicp »

DennisP wrote: post #44

What is the CDM mentioned in this description? https://github.com/widevinedump/WV-AMZN-4K-RIPPER They mention you can email for the CDM and it's not free. Disney is the same.

There is one they "burned" here https://github.com/widevinedump/LenovoTB-X505X-L1-KEY

Just a keypair + certificate.

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Post by bayindirh »

thih9 wrote: post #173
matheusmoreira wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Copyright holders will never be able to compete with piracy. It's impossible. Imagine what it'd take for them to actually offer a service that can even begin to compare with what copyright infringement makes possible. They'd have to pool all their intellectual property into a single holding and offer access to all of it at once. Piracy offers us all the works of humanity, everything ever created. These copyright hold…

> Copyright holders will never be able to compete with piracy. It's impossible. Legal music streaming is good enough for me. Seems a much more convenient and less fragmented ecosystem; I wish movie streaming was like that.

The only problem is "license expire" between the labels and the streamers.

My absolute favorite song suffered from this. One morning I opened Spotify, and all the songs in that album was greyed out.

It returned a couple of months later, but it's an enough of a warning.

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Post by lazyasciiart »

paulcole wrote: post #152
bo1024 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your use of the word "take" is probably related to the disconnect. In copyright violations, the crime is copying. Usually "taking" has a different connotation than copying. (I'd be mad if you took my bike, but if you copied it then I'd just be happy for you.)

If I’m describing an action I took as a “crime” I’m not going to feel good about it no matter how finely I choose to split the hairs.

Some people have a looser coupling between legality and morality than others, often because they disapprove of some laws (like the crime of sleeping under a bridge, or repairing your own tractor…)

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Post by Sander_Marechal »

bayindirh wrote: post #188
thih9 wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Copyright holders will never be able to compete with piracy. It's impossible. Legal music streaming is good enough for me. Seems a much more convenient and less fragmented ecosystem; I wish movie streaming was like that.

The only problem is "license expire" between the labels and the streamers. My absolute favorite song suffered from this. One morning I opened Spotify, and all the songs in that album was greyed out. It returned a couple of months later, but it's an enough of a warning.

I would love to see compulsory licensing schemes for audio and video streaming like they have for radio broadcasts. Maybe allow 1 or 2 years of exclusivity, but anything else is fair game to stream by anyone as long as they pay the license fee.
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