• SaltySalamander@fedia.io
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          3 days ago

          it downloads them directly from YouTube

          Thus, pirating them. More or less by the same method that is used to download every single WEB-DL movie/episode you see on torrent sites.

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            3 days ago

            It’s not pirating if you’re obtaining a video that they’re making available to you for free lmao.

            Otherwise it would be “pirating” to just load up YouTube.com in your browser and watching any old video.

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              2 days ago

              Youtube doesn’t let you download the videos directly. If they did, you’d be right. The fact that the original yt-dl was shut down by Youtube kinda disproves your point all by itself.