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by aragot 4417 days ago
We're rather talking about Youtube going under DRM than Netflix.

Youtube without DRM was an advantage for a couple of hackers: They could download vids for offline viewing (iPod/iPad and p2p-sharing after takedown).

Youtube with DRM could change the game. The impact of a movie being pirated on Youtube is much more contained if users can't download it.
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icebraining 4417 days ago
But they will. If the video player can decrypt the content, so can any youtube downloader transparently for the user.
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jiggy2011 4417 days ago
Adding DRM to youtube simply doesn't make sense to me. The majority of content is added to youtube because the publisher wants people to view it and share it as much as possible. They aren't monetising the content directly.

It's really only big media companies that are in the weird position of wanting many people to view their content but only under specific constraints.

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icebraining 4417 days ago
Some videos on Youtube are already using DRM, in the form of RTMPE.
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