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by rational-future 4230 days ago
Great job rg3, thank you very much for your work!

Do you think DRM support in browsers and major tube sites will soon prevent tools like youtube-dl from functioning?

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Well, this is going to be more of a philosophical answer than a technical one: with the popularity of YouTube nowadays, which is available on every platform and allows for anyone, anywhere to instantly watch a video, the cat-and-mouse DRM game would not succeed. I think DRM is flawed (insert the typical lock-and-key analogy here) but it does work for some situations. For YouTube: probably not. Somewhere, someone talented would crack it and tools like youtube-dl would continue to exist. A recent example is youtube-dl using rtmpdump when available to download DRMed videos.