A federal court in California has ruled that YouTube creators who use stream-ripping tools to download clips for reaction and commentary videos may face liability under the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions -- a decision that could reshape how one of the platform's most popular content genres operates. U.S. Magistrate Judge Virginia K. DeMarchi of the Northern District of California denied a motion to dismiss in Cordova v. Huneault, a creator-versus-creator dispute, finding that YouTube's "rolling cipher" technology qualifies as an access control measure under section 1201(a) even though the underlying videos are freely viewable by the public. The distinction matters because it separates the act of watching a video from the act of downloading it. The defense had argued that no ripping tools were actually used and that screen recording could account for the copied footage. Judge DeMarchi allowed the claim to proceed to discovery regardless, noting that the plaintiff had adequately pled the circumvention allegation. The ruling opens a legal avenue beyond standard copyright infringement for creators who want to go after rivals. Reaction channels have long leaned on fair use as a blanket defense, but plaintiff's attorney Randall S. Newman told TorrentFreak that circumventing copy protections under section 1201 is a separate violation unaffected by any fair use finding.

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YouTube has confirmed that it is blocking background playback -- the ability to keep a video's audio running after minimizing the browser or locking the screen -- for non-Premium users across third-party mobile browsers including Samsung Internet, Brave, Vivaldi and Microsoft Edge. Users began reporting the issue last week, noting that audio would cut out the moment they left the browser, sometimes after a brief "MediaOngoingActivity" notification flashed before media controls disappeared. A Google spokesperson told Android Authority that the platform "updated the experience to ensure consistency," calling background play a Premium-exclusive feature.

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Plusieurs utilisateurs ont remarqué que YouTube avait commencé à bloquer la lecture en arrière-plan sur mobile via des navigateurs tiers. Un changement confirmé par Google, rapporte notamment The Verge le 3 février 2026.

La compatibilité de la Nintendo Switch 2 avec l'application YouTube ne semble plus qu'une question de jours. La console en est privée depuis sa sortie.

Alors que la saison 2 de Fallout cartonne actuellement sur Prime Video, le géant du streaming a choisi de faire un cadeau aux fans et aux nouveaux venus de l'univers post-apocalyptique.

En attendant le tonitruant décollage de la fusée d'Artémis II, on peut l'observer sur son pas de tir à toute heure grâce à un direct de la Nasa sur YouTube. Voici comment voir 24h/24 le Space Launch System (SLS) avant le départ de cette mission habitée vers la Lune.

Netflix prévoit une grosse refonte de son application mobile en 2026. Au coeur de ce nouveau design : un feed vertical de clips issus du catalogue Netflix.

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan used his annual letter to creators, published Wednesday, to outline an ambitious 2026 vision that embraces AI-powered creative tools while simultaneously pledging to crack down on the low-quality AI content that has come to be known as "slop." Mohan identified four AI-related areas that YouTube "must get right in 2026." The platform is working on tools that will let creators use AI to generate Shorts featuring their own likenesses and to experiment with music. "Just as the synthesizer, Photoshop and CGI revolutionized sound and visuals, AI will be a boon to the creatives who are ready to lean in," he wrote. Features like autodubbing, he says, will "transform the viewer experience." But "the rise of AI has raised concerns about low-quality content, aka 'AI slop,'" he wrote. YouTube is building on its existing spam and clickbait detection systems to reduce the spread of such content. He also flagged deepfakes as a particular concern: "It's becoming harder to detect what's real and what's AI-generated." The platform plans to double down on AI labels and introduce tools that let creators protect their likenesses.

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YouTube is updating search filters so users can explicitly choose between Shorts and long-form videos. The change also replaces view-count sorting with a new "Popularity" filter and removes underperforming options like "Sort by Rating." The Verge reports: Right now, a filter-less search shows a mix of longform and short form videos, which can be annoying if you just want to see videos in one format or the other. But in the new search filters, among other options, you can pick to see "Videos," which in my testing has only showed a list of longform videos, or "Shorts," which just shows Shorts. YouTube is also removing the "Upload Date - Last Hour" and "Sort by Rating" filters because they "were not working as expected and had contributed to user complaints." The company will still offer other "Upload Date" filters, like "Today," "This week," "This Month," and "This Year," and you can also find popular videos with the new "Popularity" filter, which is replacing the "View count" sort option. (With the new "Popularity" filter, YouTube says that "our systems assess a video's view count and other relevance signals, such as watch time, to determine its popularity for that specific query.")

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Disney a accepté de payer une amende de 10 millions de dollars pour régler des accusations selon lesquelles le groupe aurait illégalement collecté des données personnelles d’enfants via des vidéos diffusées sur YouTube, en violation de la loi américaine sur la protection de la vie privée des enfants en ligne (COPPA).

Une étude révèle que 21 % des YouTube Shorts sont désormais générés par intelligence artificielle. Cette invasion de contenus IA transforme la plateforme de vidéos en ligne en une machine à vues qui rapporte 117 millions de dollars par an à une poignée de chaînes.

Même sans vrai feu de cheminée à la maison, il est possible de créer une ambiance qui s'en approche. Les plateformes de vidéos offrent plusieurs émissions centrées sur bûches crépitantes.