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YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI (itsfoss.com)
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[โ€“] bonn2@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

AFAIK, most streaming services have some sort of a DRM system that won't let you screen capture a video. Not like it is impossible to circumvent. Not even hard, I may say. But it is still there.