> A federal appeals court last week issued a “hugely important” decision with potentially major implications for data journalists when it held that using computer programs to collect publicly available information from the internet — or “scraping” — likely does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the main federal computer crime statute.

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...which many entities would love to do. If it were illegal to extract data any way but through an official API, with a TOS and fees and everything, that would make a bunch of dying business models so much more viable.

I thought I'll make a post to explain this easy method, then realized Google would take down that method within a week, so I'm keeping quiet.

Just remove the range parameter in the URL.

You really can't.

>> I've found a way to download videos right from the domain googlevideo.com

I assure you, you really didn't.

Here's a really simple site that can do it: https://en.savefrom.net/1-youtube-video-downloader-4/ There are tens of others.

I'm not gaining anything from your assurance. I've found the best way - A first party method. No shady downloaders, extensions. I'm going to keep using it.

Just an anecdotal story about how software that offends lawyers can become acceptable by making certain changes. I hope the suggested changes to YT-dl will allow it to pass lawyer's smell test.

https://freedom.press/news/riaa-github-youtube-dl-journalist...

But in case they do something that stupid, there will be forks. I will probably even make one fork myself with removed code reinstated.

EDIT: what the downvotes are for? Do you really want youtube-dl to appease Microsoft, RIAA or something?