From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using xwidget to play youtube videos
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:05:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878u2q6pvk.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878u2q8uf9.fsf@ahungry.com>
On 2016-02-12, at 04:43, Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> On 2016-02-10, at 15:41, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>>
>>> youtube-dl can download them,
>>
>> (which is technically illegal, AFAIK)
>>
>>> or show the ultimative video URL.
>>
>> What do you mean by that? YT can show the URL, too, by using the
>> "share" option, doesn't it?
>>
>>> Andreas.
>>
>> Best,
>
> In what regions is it illegal? What law specifically is it breaking?
>
> I don't see how youtube-dl parsing the HTML YouTube sends, and following
> a video link in the HTML, then downloading just the video is any
> different than a browser doing the same thing (other than the browser
> will normally delete the video from it's hidden download directory when
> done with the page).
>
> Or do you mean it is against the YouTube TOS?
Yes, I meant that. I guess breaking the contract you entered is illegal
in most jurisdictions. (BTW, those ToS are absurd, IMVHO. But this is
another story.)
> The share option is a link to a YouTube HTML page with the video in a
> container, the "ultimate video URL" is the actual (often obfuscated by
> YouTube) link to the direct Shockwave Flash or HTML5 video (ending in
> .swf etc. - the streamed video file itself).
Ah, I see. Interesting.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-12 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-09 5:58 Using xwidget to play youtube videos Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-09 9:38 ` joakim
2016-02-09 22:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-10 14:14 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-10 14:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-02-11 5:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-11 9:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-02-11 18:21 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-21 17:17 ` Nix
2016-02-22 3:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-22 9:27 ` joakim
2016-02-22 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-23 1:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-22 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-22 18:59 ` joakim
2016-02-22 18:59 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-12 3:43 ` Matthew Carter
2016-02-12 13:05 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2016-02-13 15:33 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-14 12:21 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-02-14 12:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-14 15:32 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-02-15 10:26 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-15 10:42 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-11 3:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-11 18:21 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-11 18:46 ` joakim
2016-02-12 12:34 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-09 16:31 ` raman
2016-02-09 22:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-10 8:03 ` joakim
2016-02-09 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-09 23:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=878u2q6pvk.fsf@mbork.pl \
--to=mbork@mbork.pl \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=joakim@verona.se \
--cc=larsi@gnus.org \
--cc=m@ahungry.com \
--cc=rms@gnu.org \
--cc=schwab@suse.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.