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richardfey
on Oct 24, 2020
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YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
From what I remember WMVs were mostly fake so I would never download them
michaelmrose
on Oct 24, 2020
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WMVs can embed instructions on where to grab codecs or authorization to play the content in the multimedia. Back in the day if you played WMV with windows media player this could be used to pwn your computer.
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