RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites

Re:RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platf... by judge2020 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:59AM (#24930002)

There are no exceptions except for things like paid TV shows (not clips, actual TV shows and movies you can pay for[0]) - you can download any video and, as said in the sibling comment, it only expires after 30 days of being offline.

0: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9679194?hl=en

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Re:RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platf... by enriquto on Thursday October 29, 2020 @10:29AM (#24930800)

I don't understand the concept of "expiration" for an actual file that you have downloaded. How does it work, technically?

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Re:RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platf... by judge2020 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @11:01AM (#24931207)

The download expires in the app. You don’t get a download button on YouTube.com with premium.

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Re:RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platf... by enriquto on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:33AM (#24940549)

So the app deletes the file after expiration. But what if you copy the file elsewhere?

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