For years, YouTube policy against users who violate their rules has been very permissive; Perhaps because it has been possible to lose some money in exchange for growing its platform. But the situation has changed a lot, and his mother home, Alphabet, is beginning to ask for a higher economic performance of YouTube; As a result, we are seeing controversial decisions, especially against YouTube advertisements.
YouTube’s point of view is now clear: either you see advertising, or youtube premium. To ensure that we only have these two alternatives, the company has begun to block or sabotage the experience of users who use announcement blockers. But that is not the sole objective of the company, and now goes for the download apps of YouTube videos.
Some users have realized that YouTube is now getting Anticopia protection in all videos that are accessed through the YouTube TV interface; Which would not be a problem, but because many apps and extensions take advantage of YouTube TV to offer video download to watch them without connection locally.
Specifically, the first project to realize this change is YT-DLP, possibly the most popular Internet video download program; Not surprisingly, many of the most downloaded apps They are actually based on the YT-DLP source codewhich originally works only in a command line. That has made YT-DLP become the number one target of YouTube, and that it has been attacked several times; The original project, YouTube-DL, became expelled from the Github platform for “helping to violate the copyright.”
The last YouTube attack focuses on the way YT-DLP works. To obtain the video files, the program does not use the website, but connects to pass by a TV YouTube customer, the service adapted to large screens. Now, some users have realized that YouTube TV customers are serving DRM videos (Anticopia protection), which causes an error in the discharge.
As a result, users affected by this change You can’t download YouTube videossince YT-DLP and programs based on the same code show an error message indicating that the video is protected. At the moment, only a small number of users is seeing this error, indicating that YouTube could be doing an experiment to verify how this change affects the experience of users; That means that it is perfectly possible that this change is removed after a while and not applied to everyone, but it is also possible that it becomes the new standard for the platform.
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The anticopia protection application in YouTube videos can be a controversial decision for the company. On the one hand, it is evident that YouTube wants to protect the content with copyright that rises to its platform, to attract more content creators and producing companies; In addition, many users download videos for skip the ads that appear on the website.
But on the other hand, it is undeniable that YouTube is also used as a platform to share videos freely and that offers content without copyright or free license. For these videos, protection would not only make sense, but would go against what users who have shared them want.
