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Chrome doesn't create a copy of the video on the users HD by default. That's what matters, if Chrome did start doing that (by itself without an extention) I'm

• kazinator 6y ago
  The media player can save the video in such a way that the Youtube site doesn't know that this happened. That makes a convincing argument that there is in fact nothing in Youtube that can be called copy protection. > I'm sure the RIAA would be suing Google over that. Probably, but it could not reasonably sue on the basis that Google's web browser is circumventing copy protection in Google's video site. They could still sue that way unreasonably of course.
• wayneftw 6y ago
  > Chrome doesn't create a copy of the video on the users HD by default. Sure it does. That's how it buffers and caches things. Even if it doesn't leave a copy on the HDD, a copy in RAM is still a copy. But all of these things are happening inside of my own computer. YouTube already sent the bits and bytes to my computer and I am allowed to do whatever I want with those bits and bytes. There's nothing illegal about keeping a copy of something that was in memory and anybody arguing otherwise should be viewed as an enemy of humanity.