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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by rrobukef on Saturday October 24, 2020 @11:35AM (#24879807)
"You also grant each other user of the Service a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to access your Content through the Service, and to use that Content (including to reproduce, distribute, modify, display, and perform it) only as enabled by a feature of the Service." https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms

It is enabled by a feature of the Youtube service.

They explicitly disallow downloading, but it is not enforcable (though that word probably doesn't mean what I think it means... the law probably overrules physics)

Severance

"If it turns out that a particular term of this Agreement is not enforceable for any reason, this will not affect any other terms."

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by jk700 on Saturday October 24, 2020 @11:43AM (#24879863)
But in that wording they do allow downloading. Features of the Youtube service accessed thought the Chrome browser don't have to be exactly the same as accessed though other browsers and tools, other tools are not prohibited to provide features they can extract and interpret from the received source code and data, they are not obligated to run the code at all or as is.
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