philippe_44 wrote: > But this plugin does not have the purpose to *download* files, does not > claim to have it. It's more a different way to browse content. It's just > a purposed-built web browser
Indeed. What I was trying to say is that the day might come where Youtube is forced to go where only approved client-side apps will be able to access the content, as that is really the only way to restrict the way separetely-served content is arranged and presented at the end point. But of course doing so would reduce the appeal, the number of users and ad revenue, so probably not their first choice. The deeper issue here as far as I can understand is that all this content (ad, videos, etc) is really openly served separately and then combined by client-side tools that anybody is free to create. So alternatively they could upgrade their back end infrastrucuture so the publicly served content is amalgated in the back-end for each specific request -- meaning ads and content are combined before being served. But doing so would require SO MUCH more back-end power than the client-side rearranging they use right now, and considering the sheer scale, probably really costly. The of course people would come up with TIVO style tools that would skip the ads... Cat and mouse game. So maybe I managed to make the counter argument that they can't really practically lock anything after all. So for now they leave their stuff right in the open (because that's cheap) and try to intimidate people to not create custom uses. In the real world, this would be the equivalent of any of us leaving our stuff on the sidewalk and then complaining that people are just helping themselves. Would anybody take that complaint seriously? No, but we are not a multi-billion dollar corporations, so there is that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dawansv's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22248 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105840 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
