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[-] mrfriki@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Wait, it is torrenting YouTube stuff a thing now?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago
[-] mrfriki@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Oh, I didn’t know, thought those were a fronted connecting to an API or something.

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

They don't connect to an API because the YouTube API requires the developers to sign YouTube Terms of Service, which they refuse to do for obvious reasons. This is why those programs break because they scrape the web page instead of using the API. So when the web page changes, the apps have to change in order to continue working. I think the reason it's called soft piracy above is because you are using the service without watching their advertising and they don't like that very much. piracy is wider scope than just torrents, but that's what most people think of when they hear the word piracy.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Legally it isn't piracy as you aren't viewing anything that wasn't publicly accessible or was not viewable without DRM

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Oh, that's interesting. Thanks for that information.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's how I understood it at least

*I am not a lawyer and you should not take this as legal advise

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I don't know if it is, but you can always just use yt-dlp or something similar.

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