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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

My worry with all this is that they might say fuck it and put DRM for all YouTube videos which would block attempts to download the videos. Not make it impossible as seen with streaming services but not as trivial as now....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Heck yeah let’s all go to break.com

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Didn't know this was still a thing haha. It brings me back

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I already subscribed to someone on Floatplane. If it gets much worse on YouTube, it might be time to switch fully.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The day they go 100% paywalled, is the day their dominance ends. They will never do this because, contrary to the corporate dickriders in this thread they rely on bait and switch tactics to draw the crowd in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I didn't say anything about paywalled.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Google's plan is to DRM the web

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well the good news is Widevine is very expensive, and doesn't work. It's not as simple as right click / save target as, but Widevine decryption is why you can torrent any of the shows/movies on those streaming services.

Everytime someone requests a video on those services, the service pays a fee to Widevine. $0.50 USD per request for the first 30k requests/month. How much you think Google is willing to pay someone for you to watch cat videos for free?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Google owns Widevine, they would be paying a fee to themselves

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You're right. But then it's also their cost incurred. Their decryption keys to revoke on exploited devices, and their engineers to try and come up with a software patch for their hardware-level CDM. It's costly was my point.