Comment by codedokode
3 months ago
Before you blame Google, think that the main users of yt-dlp could be:
1) multi-billion AI companies which download large amount of videos without permission and without paying
2) Youtube competitors/replacements in countries where Youtube is blocked, which copy the videos without permission and payment
I wish though that Youtube would adjust their policy to block this type of users and let ordinary people download videos.
> this type of user
They are undifferentiable from ordinary users.
And what about users who do adblocking? They are also "not paying" in the same sense - how come they're not included in your list?
They are distinguished by volume. No ordinary user downloads millions of videos.
> No ordinary user downloads millions of videos.
why not? If that ordinary user wants to train their own model? Now you're not allowing such things to be done?
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