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YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI (itsfoss.com)
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[+] -8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

I mean technically speaking unless you have permission of the copyright owner to download their video any tool you use to download (almost) any YouTube video would be a piracy tool.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Your web browser necessarily has to download a YouTube video in order to display it to you. It just doesn't provide an easy way for that data to be more than ephemeral.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Going to YouTube and having your browser download the video so you can watch it would be an approved way to download the video, making further copies of it more than likely not.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Nnnnnnope. Time shifting.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Time shifting?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    https://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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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    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.

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