▲ 490 ▼ YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI (itsfoss.com) submitted 21 hours ago by Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world 94 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] evidences@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (3 children) Time shifting? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_shifting It's why DVRing is legal. This tool is no different functionally than a screen recorder pointed at the video. That's how they used to work, but that changed once TV went digital (they don't reencode, they store the pre-compressed segments. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] evidences@lemmy.world 1 point 15 hours ago (1 child) Ok that's fun I was unaware of this term. It's kind of interesting though to apply the term to something like digital streaming media that's already, for lack of a better term, pre time-shifted. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] GMac@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago Interesting idea. If i subscribe to a streaming service for one month, i can save 31 days * 24 hours of content for later viewing. That would keep ke going quite a while since i only have the time to watch tv for a couple of hours per night... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_shifting It's why DVRing is legal. This tool is no different functionally than a screen recorder pointed at the video. That's how they used to work, but that changed once TV went digital (they don't reencode, they store the pre-compressed segments. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] evidences@lemmy.world 1 point 15 hours ago (1 child) Ok that's fun I was unaware of this term. It's kind of interesting though to apply the term to something like digital streaming media that's already, for lack of a better term, pre time-shifted. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] GMac@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago Interesting idea. If i subscribe to a streaming service for one month, i can save 31 days * 24 hours of content for later viewing. That would keep ke going quite a while since i only have the time to watch tv for a couple of hours per night... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] evidences@lemmy.world 1 point 15 hours ago (1 child) Ok that's fun I was unaware of this term. It's kind of interesting though to apply the term to something like digital streaming media that's already, for lack of a better term, pre time-shifted. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] GMac@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago Interesting idea. If i subscribe to a streaming service for one month, i can save 31 days * 24 hours of content for later viewing. That would keep ke going quite a while since i only have the time to watch tv for a couple of hours per night... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GMac@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago Interesting idea. If i subscribe to a streaming service for one month, i can save 31 days * 24 hours of content for later viewing. That would keep ke going quite a while since i only have the time to watch tv for a couple of hours per night... permalink fedilink source parent