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1) Downloading videos to use later in editing for analysis pieces / editorial videos.

I wonder if certain famous YouTubers used youtube-dl for this purpose. How else would you download, edit, and analyze a video's editing or special effects?

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There’s plenty of online tools and browser extensions to accomplish the same task (I wonder how many of those use YouTube-dl on the backend)

Browser extensions are very similar, just as an extension instead of direct. Unfortunately, it's difficult to use non-store extensions in Chrome, and Google pretty much blocks anything that allows youtube downloads from the store. youtube-dl is likely the most popular option for this, and even then, the same (deeply flawed) logic could be used against any of them.

> I wonder how many of those use YouTube-dl on the backend

i wager to say that the vast majority of browser extensions and websites that allow downloading of media content use ytdl in the background

On Twitch streamers have a browser window open and pause it to comment.

HDCP protections added to Chrome in 3...2...

edit: I only meant this in so much that it's entirely possible for Google, that controls both Chrome (the biggest browser) and YouTube (biggest online video site) to encable DHCP restrictions on video capture from within the browser for sites (such as YouTube) that might implement it. Given their proclivity towards giving the RIAA/MPAA whatever they ask for, it wouldn't surprise me.

> DHCP protections...

I'm guessing you meant HDCP?

I'm pretty sure that encrypted media sites already use HDCP because my projector glitches for a few seconds sometimes when I first navigate to Prime Video, and whenever I have a secondary analog VGA monitor connected Prime Video will only play in standard definition.

That was what I was thinking, edited, thanks... Half surprised they haven't done this to some youtube videos/channels already then.

Any rebroadcast is already against Youtube TOS. It's only for personal use.

There's fair use though. It makes sense that you are able to quote a video. Its just that those people on Twitch don't quote; they play the whole thing. Captions with bookmarks would fix that (Pornhub has that natively, quite useful).

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