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		colejohnson66 on Nov 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube-dl's repository has been restored By that logic, playing Netflix on your browser is breaking DRM. That’s not how that works.

boomboomsubban on Nov 17, 2020 [–]

Netflix sends the videos to your computer with a form of DRM and then uses a key from either your browser or hardware to unlock the content. That is nothing like YouTube, which sends both the links and the media to you unencrypted.

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