That's a video with music from a YouTube channel owned by one of the most copyright lawyered cartoon companies in the world. They successfully made videos of a cartoon mouse stay protected after it was supposed to enter public domain.
Yet, I hear that this video is also able to be downloaded without problem with yt-dlp.
So when these videos are able to download without problem, idk what public videos on YouTube would not be able to be downloaded with yt-dlp.
The piece mentioning "rental films" leads me to believe they're referring to the paid content available on YouTube. Much like Amazon Video or other sites, YouTube allows movies to be rented or purchased. These are unable to be downloaded via programs like yt-dlp.
This is not in reference to copyright. It's in reference to DRM, which isn't present on public videos (but seems to be present on purchased and rented videos).
> Sounds like the don't understand that official music and video content like rental films are DRMed
And that's what I was responding to. Not YouTube Music.
There are plenty videos with music from the original distributors, like those I linked above, on regular YouTube, and which as mentioned will be able to download with yt-dlp.
Can you give an example of a YouTube video where this happens?
Take for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ozmU9cJDg
That's a video of a song from the channel of the band that killed the Napster P2P network and software back in the day.
I hear that there is no problem downloading that song with yt-dlp.
Likewise, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FTATjvCJ-Q
That's a video with music from a YouTube channel owned by one of the most copyright lawyered cartoon companies in the world. They successfully made videos of a cartoon mouse stay protected after it was supposed to enter public domain.
Yet, I hear that this video is also able to be downloaded without problem with yt-dlp.
So when these videos are able to download without problem, idk what public videos on YouTube would not be able to be downloaded with yt-dlp.