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If there weren't any technological measures preventing you from downloading and saving YouTube videos, then youtube-dl wouldn't exist. You would just download t
by jonas21 6y ago
If there weren't any technological measures preventing you from downloading and saving YouTube videos, then youtube-dl wouldn't exist. You would just download the video from YouTube yourself.
- MereInterest 6y ago"Preventing" is not the same as failing to enable. As far as I know, there's nothing that youtube has implemented that prevents downloading. It is simply inconvenient as a result of not being the primary goal.
- jonas21 6y agoThere's an encrypted signature in the response from YouTube that youtube_dl decrypts in order to request the video content. Perhaps it's not a super-sophisticated technical measure if youtube-dl was able to defeat it -- but it's a technical measure nonetheless.