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Kalcifer ,
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From what I recall, this sort of stuff is usually kept as a closely guarded secret by those who do it. Perhaps someone else more knowledgeable about the practice could give some more insight.

reminiscensdeus OP ,

Interesting, I wonder why that is. I guess to stay one step ahead of the corporations trying to prevent them from succeeding? I can’t imagine it’s to prevent others from following suit. Feels like that would be a weird motivation for people saving and disseminating content.

Petter1 ,

To stay a step ahead of other crews, I would say. It is a competition

reminiscensdeus OP ,

Is it? What’s the reward? More recognition? More seeders?

vodka ,

It is a race and being faster than your competitors means you win. It’s a game and the reward is dopamine.

TwilightKiddy ,

Usually the methods are not shared because streaming services would go out of their way to break them. Just like Youtube breaks yt-dlp every now and then. But Youtube is too big to implement any serious protection, so, downloaders usually win. I heard Crunchyroll is ripped via their mobile app, albeit modified. But specifics are better left in the dark.

montar ,

yt-dlp does a great job at ripping on majority of websites. If yt-dlp can’t rip something then likely there is service-specific tool to do that i.e tidal-dl for Tidal (hi-fi music service). There’s also a hardware method that involves cheap chineese hdmi splitters (it needs to be a cheap one, b/c they lack support for DRM) and hdmi capture card. Sometimes it’s DVD or blu-ray ripping.

reminiscensdeus OP ,

Very informative, thanks!

tfowinder ,
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You would have to crack DRM if you want to rip from streaming services. See Widevine.

There are multiple classes of security L3, L2 etc and correspondingly harder to bypass.

Fee people know how to bypass it. I guess you can research more about how it works and try to find if you can bypass it.

reminiscensdeus OP ,

Thanks for the info! In all likelihood will never pursue this but always happy to learn more about how things work.

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