2026-10-02 04:03 UTC
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_shifting
It’s why DVRing is legal. This tool is no different functionally than a screen recorder pointed at the video. That’s how they used to work, but that changed once TV went digital (they don’t reencode, they store the pre-compressed segments.
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@evidences@lemmy.world 2026-10-02 04:26
Ok that’s fun I was unaware of this term. It’s kind of interesting though to apply the term to something like digital streaming media that’s already, for lack of a better term, pre time-shifted.