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"it’s good enough to signal to average users that downloading content from YouTube is not permitted."

that sure seems like doublespeak. i have to download the video to watch it.

It's probably "download" (legal definition) and not "download" (technical definition), and Mr. Judge will only care about the legal definition.

Yes it seems obvious to me that "download" here means "store outside the browser in a format that can be viewed in any player and copied indefinitely". of course my browser is downloading a video I watch but not in a form that is useful to me outside of viewing it on that site in that browser.

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