@thomasfuchs @dredmorbius @micahflee
It is objectively bullshit. youtube-dl is not helping circumvent "effective technological measures". It can extract the links to the streams from webpages. It can not break DRM.
Anyone could find those links by opening the built-in network inspector of a browser and run ffmpeg -i <url> -map 0 -c copy stream.ts
It's clearly a case for the EFF.
@smpl @thomasfuchs @dredmorbius @micahflee But they're citing that german courts consider YouTube to be DRM. Still doesn't necessarily apply to the US...
Remember: DRM is a legal construct masquarading as a technological one!
@alcinnz @thomasfuchs @dredmorbius @micahflee
It's easy to understand why they chose not to cite a finnish court ruling from 2007, who said this about a real DRM protection, CSS (DVD).
"CSS protection can no longer be considered an effective technological measure referred to in the law. A consequence of this is that the constituent elements of a misdemeanour of violating a technological measure are not fulfilled. Therefore the charge must be dismissed."
smpl
alcinnz