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[–] 9 points 1 hour ago*

Allow to explain why piracy can’t die in a way buisness majors can understand.

She’s gorgeous. She’s fantastic in bed. She pegs you and won’t tell anybody. You want to marry her.

You will be subjected to nonstop crazy bullshit for the rest of your life. She’s no longer fun, just expensive. She’s abusive. Nobody is happy.

And now she has ads.

You drink more. You stop coming home after work until she’s asleep. You refer to local hookers by their legal first names.

One day she throws a clot and dies. And you feel relief. The abuse, the lies, the manipulation, the pretending to be happy is finally done. You are free.

This in an anolgy for streaming services.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 hours ago

    Company happly sends media to my computer when requested.

    Company angry my computer do what I want with the media it got.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 hour ago*

    IIRC Google researchers have publicly used it for machine learning experiments. For example, for grabbing a sample video as part of some demo code.

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  • [–] 47 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    They describe the tool as an application that retrieves content by parsing web page data and interacting with platform playback endpoints, with GitHub serving as the primary delivery method for its source code, pre-compiled binaries, and installation instructions.

    Omg, web browsers will be next!

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    Nah, bro. I'm using it to train my ai. Trust me bro.

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  • [–] 87 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    There’s an EU piracy watchlist? Did anyone submit Facebook to it?

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  • [–] 61 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the content mafia really hates everything that makes us actually own something.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    How soon before WINE is included in this?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago

    Of course it's the music industry...

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  • [–] 12 points 5 hours ago (18 children)

    Can it download any of those paid movies? That might be the only thing that makes sense

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago* (6 children)

    It's not piracy anyway even if that worked as the owner isn't being deprived of what they own.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (5 children)

    That's not what piracy is, though. That's why piracy isn't theft.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago* (4 children)

    Piracy is an act of robbery on the high seas.

    Robbery is larceny from the person or presence of another by violence or threat.

    Larceny is the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

    In this context, we are referring to the "Copyright or patent infringement" definition, which is not theft.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago*

    I would expect it can as long as you can provide a cookie for a login that owns the movie. But you know what can also do that? Firefox with OBS running, it just takes the full runtime to download.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (7 children)

    I mean technically speaking unless you have permission of the copyright owner to download their video any tool you use to download (almost) any YouTube video would be a piracy tool.

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    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 41 minutes ago

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    Your web browser necessarily has to download a YouTube video in order to display it to you. It just doesn't provide an easy way for that data to be more than ephemeral.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    Going to YouTube and having your browser download the video so you can watch it would be an approved way to download the video, making further copies of it more than likely not.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago (2 children)

    I mean, yeah? Isn't that what we're all using it for?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    Yes, but no one likes to think that. Read other comments, people seemingly think downloading or distributing copyrights-protected material (just like movies) is perfectly legal. There really isn't many videos on YouTube that uses public domain or creative commons.

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