While trying to find a torrent for a show, I became curious about how others are creating the torrents I know and love. Is ripping a video from a streaming service relatively easy? Are there tools y’all would recommend?
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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.
Very informative, thanks!
there is service-specific tool to do that i.e tidal-dl for Tidal (hi-fi music service)
Do you know of any others?
Sadly, no. You can open https://github.com and look for name of service you’re intrested in.
Good idea!
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.
Thanks for the info! In all likelihood will never pursue this but always happy to learn more about how things work.
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.
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.
To stay a step ahead of other crews, I would say. It is a competition
Is it? What’s the reward? More recognition? More seeders?
It is a race and being faster than your competitors means you win. It’s a game and the reward is dopamine.
Well said 😄
