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Is there a legit way to download the videos I've bought on Prime Video? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've only found TV rips of the series while sailing. Is there a way to download the videos?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do these programs work? Do they just record the stream?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They download the file (which you can usually do with a little Inspect Element action + yt-dlp), but then also decrypt the file.

Most of the big streaming services use Widevine DRM (or at least did at one point, I might be outdated by now), so just downloading the file gives you appropriately-sized gibberish. These apps tend to be expensive because getting around the DRM is usually non-trivial.