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youtube’s been testing various ways of limiting access, both for downloaders and real users with adblockers most fucked up experiment being forced DRM for ALL videos, even those that are licensed as CC: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563 feels like it will only get worse from now on 🫠

If rolled out widely, this would make web browsers and third-party YouTube clients without a DRM license unusable for YouTube playback, download, etc. This would include almost all open-source web browsers and almost all third-party YouTube clients. Archive link to reddit post about this

  • Francisco@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The sad state of things is that 90% of the population won’t care if their favorite MrBeast video has DRM.

    Agreed!!

    (unfortunately PeerTube is so far off being a reasonable alternative)

    Why? Because of the hosting cost? Where is Youtube getting this for cheap?

    • Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I mean, I could see PeerTube being an alternative if there was better discoverability, better tools for creators to monetize their work, and there was a huge influx of people moving over to PeerTube as well as starting their own instances in order to spread out the hosting and make it less expensive for everyone involved. YouTube isn’t getting it for cheap, they’re just financed by one of the world’s largest companies and have huge amounts of revenue.

      • asudox@lemmy.asudox.devEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Yeah, If content creators (at least 1 in 10) ran their own instance, I think PeerTube could be a pretty good alternative and the cost would be split between instances.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Because of the hosting cost? Where is Youtube getting this for cheap?

      More than 500 hours of video content are uploaded to YouTube every minute (reference). The cost of operating this system is astronomical. Building a competing platform is entirely out of reach unless you have nation-state levels of wealth.

      YouTube’s costs are effectively subsidized by Alphabet (Google). All of the restrictions being implemented are about trying to make YouTube profitable, especially by protecting the ad revenue stream.