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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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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everyone doesn't have to host their own instance.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Everyone doesn’t have to host their own instance.

They don't, but how long do you think a free instance is going to last when it starts seeing serious volume. Video storage in the cloud is expensive AF.

[–] uxellodunum@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Odysee did/does something interesting where if one uses the desktop client, the video gets streamed and cached, and then seeded back over a configurable amount of time. I could see creator's communities being self-sustainable this way.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Odyssey was a technical failure. They pushed pretty hard to get the community into it but once it reached even a slightly elevated usage, They had to start standing up servers to back the swarm.

I believe it can work but they didn't crack the nut on that unfortunately, At least not before the SEC brok in and riped them a new one for selling securities basically destroyed the backing company.

[–] 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, video storage is what prevents corporations from creating YouTube competitors, and it also prevents decentralized users from competing

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

and it also prevents decentralized users from competing

It doesn't have to. PT is just using webtorrent. Make a desktop client that links into existing PT instances for discovery and indexing, but have the DHT pull the files right off the person's home box. Every content creator makes a buddy, they pin each other's content. Every content creator stores their own stuff + 1 person.