We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.

This is not limited to yt-dlp. Tests have been run with the same account on various official YouTube TV clients (PS3, web browser, apple tv) and they are also only getting DRM formats for videos.

We live in hell-world.

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[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Of course. The YT-DLP team by refusing to support DRM videos gave Google a huge neon sign that said this is the one thing that will shut them down, the line they won’t cross. Google has targeted the big front end instances with rate limits and blocks and this is the next step.

Our only hope really is that the current YT-DLP team hands the reins over to people in countries that don’t give a shit about copyright and they put back in the ability to download and decrypt DRM protected video.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 17 hours ago

I mean, that's basically how yt-dlp came to be. They took over when yt-download couldn't keep up anymore. I hate this time, it will take a while until the best successor is found.

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