Re:YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
by milge on Friday April 08, 2016 @09:07AM
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Recently, I wrote a chrome plugin that saves information of all of the songs I listen to on youtube to amazon since youtube's history API is shit. Theoretically, I could write a nightly job that runs YouTube-dl to turn all of those videos into MP3s. Taking it even further, I could run a nightly SyncMe job on my phone to copy the MP3s locally. A setup like this would be good for people with limited phone bandwidth. Imagine not having to search out MP3s anymore. Is it still considered pirating if a robot does it?
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Re:YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
by Kenji on Friday April 08, 2016 @09:15AM
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Yeah but how are they gonna detect it. Streaming a video is pretty much indistinguishable from downloading since that's what you actually do. If there's no claimant, there's no judge. I'd say things like that are de facto legal since it cannot be enforced.
Re:YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
by phonyphonecall on Friday April 08, 2016 @09:08AM
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Unfortunately, the robot only does what you tell it to do.