Can You keep YouTube movies?

[zenthark]

Originally Posted by SynchroDub

No different than the DRM-crap they pushed with Kindle ebooks, DRMed-WMV Porn downloads downloaded from a legit site you payed your hard-earned cash to (Adul1 B0unc3r was one of these websites), Blu-Ray UV/iTunes Digital Copies or iPhone/iPad apps.
It's always DRM, but with a different face, in the end. No matter what.
You always own absolutely nothing or have any right to do whatever you want with what you purchase digitally.

In the end, this is all a cat and mouse game. As soon as the industry brings a new DRM/blocking technology, the p1r4t3s comes up with a way to break or circumvent it, as it happens with games, software, music etc. This fight doesn't end, and the ones who are really losing are the legit customers, who spend their hard earned money on products riddled with DRM-cr4p and don't have freedom to use them as they wish.

[SynchroDub]

Originally Posted by zenthark

In the end, this is all a cat and mouse game. As soon as the industry brings a new DRM/blocking technology, the p1r4t3s comes up with a way to break or circumvent it, as it happens with games, software, music etc. This fight doesn't end, and the ones who are really losing are the legit customers, who spend their hard earned money on products riddled with DRM-cr4p and don't have freedom to use them as they wish.

Loopholes are EVERYWHERE.
Formats changes, the way people consume media changes, but the story of DRM and copy-protection systems repeats itself, all over again.
You probably might don't remember when DVD-Audio and SACD discs came out, and their crappy DRM/Watermark coding. But I do.
I spent nights, trying to figure out how to get the data off those discs, specially from SACD discs (which are still invisible to most PC DVD/Blu-Ray drives, despite the fact that SACD discs are just plain DVD-ROMs with segments and sectors files that tells the appropriate player what to play and what not, along, of course, DSD audio files and playlists with titles and everything).
It was thanks to a very clever guy who found a loophole in those old FAT PS3s that SACD ripping became a reality, in the end. But it lasted only a few years, though, as Sony figure it out and released a FW update, promptly, to break ripping of those discs.
If you're lucky enough, you might still find one of those FAT PS3s with the correct firmware to read/rip those discs, on the Bay. But prices, at this time, might have definitely sky-rocketed by now, due to the rarity and the high demand from the niche market who knows what a SACD is.
And it's still nothing. Hold on.
Some studios, now, are literally forcing PC M-Disc/BD-XL Blu-Ray drives (those who read 4K UHD Blu-Ray discs, so to speak) manufacturers (like Asus, LG, Pioneer) to release firmware updates to break ripping/playback/access to the files from commercial 4K UHD discs.
Luckily, I got a player that reads them fine as data-discs (for only $80), so I absolutely have no problem ripping them as either ISO files or just rip the main movie.m2ts file to playback on my 4K TV or convert them in another format to watch them on-the-go. So I already gave them the finger.
But those who are looking for a cheap BD drive to read/rip their 4K UHD discs, on their PCs, might have a bad luck, right now.
Unless they're very tech-savy enough to reverse/mess around with firmwares and HEX coding, they're screwed.
Good way to push a new format and a $hitty OS like Win10 (which is a MUST, to legally playback those discs, due to M$ HEVC/4K DRM deal they made with the studios).