Piped cracks CAPTCHA blocks meant to ensure YouTube maintains access to their hosted videos. That CAPTCHA includes a EULA that by engaging with the captcha to continue using youtube you agree not to circumvent google ads. Piped intentionally (and correctly, from an ethics perspective) circumvents this
I don’t think there is such a thing as YouTube doesn’t use any DRM. All videos are publicly available on a public facing service available to all
the EULA for YouTube says they own all videos uploaded to their site. watching through something like Piped is a soft (and important) form of piracy
You aren’t agreeing the the EULA
But the person operating the piped server is
How so?
It is just a web crawler. It isn’t do much more than your standard search engine
Piped cracks CAPTCHA blocks meant to ensure YouTube maintains access to their hosted videos. That CAPTCHA includes a EULA that by engaging with the captcha to continue using youtube you agree not to circumvent google ads. Piped intentionally (and correctly, from an ethics perspective) circumvents this