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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] youtube-dl might be running non-free software from
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Adonay Felipe Nogueira |
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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] youtube-dl might be running non-free software from |
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Sat, 08 Jul 2017 10:14:48 -0300 |
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Also, as I and rain1 debated in the #trisquel IRC channel:
- rain1 mentioned that in the past, youtube-dl used to hard-code the
functions:
[[https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/b513a251f8ba1123617ece96bff30e3f2863c6c2/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py#L331]].
- Taking what is suggested by various free/libre software speakers
(/e.g./: Stallman), I applied the worst case scenario comparison to
the non-free JS in which youtube-dl seem to depend on. Suppose that
JSInterpreter would indeed be free/libre software, since Magic Banana
and other people (in the Trisquel topics that were referenced in early
messages) consider JSInterpreter to be "Turing-complete", and since
YouTube's JS is already non-free, if YouTube decides to go mad and do
something the end-user doesn't want to --- which I already assume
so even out of this example --- then YouTube only needs to write the
bad features in JavaScript in order for the visitor/user to blindly
use it it.
- I suggested rain1 that the decoder for a libre version of youtube-dl
would probably need to be hard-coded.
- Just now, it also came to me that we could base the code from the
ViewTube GreaseMonkey script, or from YouTube All HTML 5 add-on. But
we have to research on how both do the signature decryption.
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] youtube-dl might be running non-free software from, rain1, 2017/07/08
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] youtube-dl might be running non-free software from, Jade Levesque, 2017/07/08
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] youtube-dl might be running non-free software from,
Adonay Felipe Nogueira <=
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] youtube-dl might be running non-free software from, rain1, 2017/07/08
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] youtube-dl might be running non-free software from, J.B. Nicholson, 2017/07/08
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] youtube-dl might be running non-free software from, Jean Louis, 2017/07/09
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] youtube-dl might be running non-free software from, Jean Louis, 2017/07/09
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] youtube-dl might be running non-free software from, Jean Louis, 2017/07/09
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] youtube-dl might be running non-free software from, Adonay Felipe Nogueira, 2017/07/18