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I feel like the first rule of youtube-dl is not to talk about youtube-dl. I keep expecting Google (and all the other sites it works on) to start taking active measures to disable it. At some point YouTube is going to require an EME module to play even "free" videos.
Not everyone has fast enough bandwidth to watch live videos. Many people rely on downloaders to actually watch the video.
Please stop talking about this, I love how it is now!
But if people didn’t talk about this, I would have have known that I could use it to watch BBC iPlayer without going through the annoying login-wall!
It also works for YouTube vids which are blocked in your country. :-)
I feel like the first rule of youtube-dl is not to talk about youtube-dl. I keep expecting Google (and all the other sites it works on) to start taking active measures to disable it. At some point YouTube is going to require an EME module to play even "free" videos.
I think command line utilities will usually be the last to receive active counter measures as they are generally considered to be used only by geeks which constitute a negligible percent of consumers.
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This is the classic cat-and-mouse game. We are pretty good at it by now.
I don't know. Netflix is doing a pretty good job shutting down VPN proxying. Yes, I know there are some providers that still work... Shhhh! However, it's a lot easier for Netflix to blacklist an IP (or an entire IP range) than it is for a provider to setup a whole new proxy - likely connected via a residential ISP.
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I like JDownloader, but it comes with adware and other things in its installer.
Run it on docker, I use jlesage/jdownloader-2
Is the goal just to use the kernel's process isolation features that you can access with `unshare`?
Or do you mean to just bypass the installation step (because that purportedly contains adware)?
A very useful and "secret" feature: you can give youtube-dl the URL of a playlist instead of a single video and it will download all of them.
...and specify to only grab the videos as mp3's to download that perfect song/mix playlist!
If you spin and use youtube-dl to build a crate, we all know, and we don’t respect you. You might win the crowd, but the people who actually bought into their profession and contributed to the community are also in attendance, and are very aware of your intrusion. You will quietly lose gigs without any explanation, and assume promoters simply can’t see your genius until you’re furiously working on 100 precious listens on SoundCloud. Fair use sampling? Go nuts and clean it up after youtube-dl. Five minute record? Make a Beatport account and get it overwith.
I tried downloading a video I purchased on Youtube but what got retrieved I could not view. The DRM seems to have prevented this from working.
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While I agree with you in principle (and have used a very similar setup for many years), I don't think HN is pro-DRM/IP enough to worry. At some point YouTube is going to require an EME module to play even "free" videos. ...which will be cracked within days if not hours.
> which will be cracked within days if not hours. Netflix requires an EME module since quite some time, and I'm not aware of any successful cracks.
https://thepiratebay.org/search/house%20of%20cards%202160p/0...
https://thepiratebay.org/search/orange%20is%20the%20new%20bl...
https://1337x.to/search/ozark+2160p/1/
What’s left to steal?
Meanwhile the majority of Netflix customers is limited to 720p video like it’s 2001. [1]
One thing I wonder is how dependant other YouTube creators are in being able to download YouTube videos so they can use it for commentary and parody. If YouTube made that significantly harder, would some creators suffer?
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While I agree with you in principle (and have used a very similar setup for many years), I don't think HN is pro-DRM/IP enough to worry. At some point YouTube is going to require an EME module to play even "free" videos. ...which will be cracked within days if not hours.
> which will be cracked within days if not hours. Netflix requires an EME module since quite some time, and I'm not aware of any successful cracks.