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That's ridiculous, YouTube videos are trivial to download.

• chatmasta 8y ago
  It’s only trivial because so many people put continuous effort into untrivializing it.
  • 0942v8653 8y ago
    I certainly appreciate the work of youtube-dl developers, but (in order to test it out) I was just able to go to the YouTube page, open the network request log on my browser, and pick out the particular URLs (one for video, one for audio) the content is downloaded from, just from the MIME types displayed. Then I was able to replay those requests (using Copy as cURL), removing the range argument, in order to download the video and audio to my machine, in an easily-playable format. (From there, nearly any video conversion software could combine video and audio into one container.) That's a far cry from having to pick out those segments from the memory of my browser as it runs. Edit: I may have misread your comment, apologies if I misunderstood.
  • rasz 8y ago
    wat? YT video is just a mp4 file on "someone elses computer "