Some people use YouTube as their repository. Or if they lost the original files it would be a way to recover something. I once had to download mp3's of my own music from MySpace because I had an HD crash and lost them.
I wondered when this would happen. I'm. not referring yotube-dl specifically but the third-party repository problem such as Github and YouTube where material exists principally on one site.
The fact that the RIAA is involved makes it high profiled case and should warn people that distributed systems/repositories are a much better (safer) idea.
I too offload my personal vidos (family/kids) to youtube from my iphone. I used to back them up on a Hd but it has since crashed so whats on youtube is basically my sole backup. If youtube dl goes down I’ll have a hard time retreiving all that
I stopped sending my data to YouTube years ago for privacy reasons, so I have multiple HD backups. External drives are cheap now. If you use three drives you've redundancy and two of the drives can be second-stage/downstream backups so the drives can be configured so as they're used intermittently, thus they get very little wear and remain reliable.
Sure that is perfectly reasonable. And the fact that YouTube is a resource for this is one of its competitive advantages. So it makes sense that YouTube might make it hard for other parties to take advantage of its position as a repository. Thus Youtube-dl is created to circumvent this design choice on the part of YouTube.
youtube-dl scrapes the website, from what I can tell. The API has rate limits that youtube-dl would bypass in a few minutes if it were to use the official API.
That's primarily what's got the RIAA's panties in a twist, is that youtube-dl is 'bypassing' youtube's protection measures to prevent their site from being effectively scraped.
Still can't understand the logic, the website is open! If the information can get to my eyes and ears I can put a recording device in-between. At the end of the day the video is being played on my computer. The only logical endgame, if stuff like this allowed to stand, leads to general purpose computing being outlawed.
Some people use YouTube as their repository. Or if they lost the original files it would be a way to recover something. I once had to download mp3's of my own music from MySpace because I had an HD crash and lost them.