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YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI (itsfoss.com)
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[–] 3 points 4 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour 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...

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