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We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.

This is not limited to yt-dlp. Tests have been run with the same account on various official YouTube TV clients (PS3, web browser, apple tv) and they are also only getting DRM formats for videos.

We live in hell-world.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Theyre adding DRM to videos they don't own. Sounds like a lawsuit

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They do own them, though. That's what happens when you upload content to Youtube. Or virtually any other website, for that matter.

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

Nope. The person who uploads the video owns the copyright/IP. Seems like they should have say in if theres DRM on their IP.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Yeah but the YT terms explicitly say that you give them a worldwide royalty free license to do whatever the fuck they want.

Content creators have no say.

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