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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    21 hours ago

    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.

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      4 hours ago

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

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        3 hours 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.