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YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI
itsfoss.com/news/yt-dlp-ifpi-piracy-watchlist/Replying to @Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca
Can it download any of those paid movies? That might be the only thing that makes sense
Replying to @Vince@lemmy.world
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.
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.
Replying to @subignition@piefed.social
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.
Replying to @evidences@lemmy.world
YT-DLP doesn’t make further copies. It downloads a video file from YouTube the exact same way your browser does.