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I thought this said the International Federation of the Pornographic Industry and got really confused lmao.
Well, that particular federation can’t be mad at yt-dlp right now, because PornHub support is broken right now. It appears. I’ve been told.
The version 2026.08.19 - the current version in the Gentoo repo - works fine on PornHub. I just tested it.
OK. Is ffmpeg piracy or are they gonna continue to use it and not fund it?
Can it download any of those paid movies? That might be the only thing that makes sense
It cannot.
Then it’s not piracy.
It’s not piracy anyway even if that worked as the owner isn’t being deprived of what they own.
That’s not what piracy is, though. That’s why piracy isn’t theft.
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.
In this context, we are referring to the “Copyright or patent infringement” definition, which is not theft.
That’s not directed at you specifically.
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.
Even free streaming services like Tubi often use DRM for large portions of their library. So in turn nearly every paid streaming service also uses DRM.
I mean technically speaking unless you have permission of the copyright owner to download their video any tool you use to download any YouTube video would be a piracy tool.
Nnnnnnope. Time shifting.
Time shifting?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_shifting
It’s why DVRing is legal. This tool is no different functionally than a screen recorder pointed at the video. That’s how they used to work, but that changed once TV went digital (they don’t reencode, they store the pre-compressed segments.
Ok that’s fun I was unaware of this term. It’s kind of interesting though to apply the term to something like digital streaming media that’s already, for lack of a better term, pre time-shifted.
Interesting idea. If i subscribe to a streaming service for one month, i can save 31 days * 24 hours of content for later viewing. That would keep ke going quite a while since i only have the time to watch tv for a couple of hours per night…
Your web browser necessarily has to download a YouTube video in order to display it to you. It just doesn’t provide an easy way for that data to be more than ephemeral.
Going to YouTube and having your browser download the video so you can watch it would be an approved way to download the video, making further copies of it more than likely not.
YT-DLP doesn’t make further copies. It downloads a video file from YouTube the exact same way your browser does.
I would expect it can as long as you can provide a cookie for a login that owns the movie. But you know what can also do that? Firefox with OBS running, it just takes the full runtime to download.
AFAIK, most streaming services have some sort of a DRM system that won’t let you screen capture a video. Not like it is impossible to circumvent. Not even hard, I may say. But it is still there.
Just so you know, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) represents around 8,000 music labels across 70 countries.
Chucklefucks. Some unsigned artists, especially underground rappers, uploaded their tracks to Youtube, long before Facebook video and Spotify. That I also use DLP to grab very interesting videos before they can be unlisted or deleted.
Which of course ends up being a boon for said underground artists to actually get a chance to spread via word-of-mouth. Can’t have someone actually have success and creative freedom, no sir!
Man fuck them. A garden hose is a tool, just because I can choke my asshole neighbor to death with it doesn’t make it a garrote.
This sounds like one of those Internet comments that eventually winds up getting entered as evidence
It’s ok, I already told the FBI agent watching me that it was a joke.
How soon before WINE is included in this?
Valve is heavily involved with that project now. Nobody would dare tilt at that windmill now.
Bold of you to assume that the boomers at these outdated organisations know who valve is
At least Valve has money to get a great defense lawyer for this not to happen.
That’s my point. The boomers don’t need to know who valve is. The lawyers know.
Nah, bro. I’m using it to train my ai. Trust me bro.
Ridiculous horseshit, fuck these clowns.
They describe the tool as an application that retrieves content by parsing web page data and interacting with platform playback endpoints, with GitHub serving as the primary delivery method for its source code, pre-compiled binaries, and installation instructions.
Omg, web browsers will be next!
You joke but killing general purpose browsers to sandbox everyone into curated apps would give most middle managing MBAs a priapism.
more than that, they want it filtered through their ai agent
Nice use of the word priapism.
Github after that
Git never needed GitHub and Microsoft is terrified people will remember that.
People have actually gone to prison for using the “view source” button in the web browser before. The RIAA mafia is deeply unserious.
You joke, but even the browsers capable of parsing the nightmare JS calls, are restricted in resolution on free platforms. Not to mention any niche browser.
There’s an EU piracy watchlist? Did anyone submit Facebook to it?
…Hmmmm… It should. If you read the linked article it claims the group lists X, discord, telegram and vimeo as sites that encourage infringement, so there’s that.
Sounds like a spam this agency project.
I mean, yeah? Isn’t that what we’re all using it for?
Yes, but no one likes to think that. Read other comments, people seemingly think downloading or distributing copyrights-protected material (just like movies) is perfectly legal. There really isn’t many videos on YouTube that uses public domain or creative commons.
Tons of science and education content does.
Lotta people seem to think its not theft of some sort to skip the payment part of the agreement (the ads) to consume their media.
How is skipping ads a form of theft?
Company happly sends media to my computer when requested.
Company angry my computer do what I want with the media it got.
All of it is strings of ones and zeros that are instructions that tell my computer what to display.
Its basic freedom of speech. Imagine not beign able to give instructions in other contexts because you didn’t pay to use the words.
wait until they hear about vhs recorders 🙄
Yeah, the content mafia really hates everything that makes us actually own something.
content mafia
Oh man, I just had flashbacks to the days we used to refer to the riaa/mpaa as the MAFIAA
Because if you have it, they can’t charge rent to use it.
and they can’t keep collecting your privacy data to sell when you try to go watch it again
I don’t think these assholes understand that its a VERY useful tool for archiving the internet, which helps keep powerful people accountable. We must fight to keep this tool so that journalists and activists can keep speaking truth to power.
They are the powerful people, and they know why they don’t want to be kept accountable.
These assholes understand that perfectly. They represent rich and powerful people who don’t like being held accountable, and who treasure the ability to keep selling you shit without you actually owning it.
An association has to always look like they are doing something for their members. that’s all.
