Valid question! On first thought, you would think the only reason to use it would be for media you don’t own (if you own it, you’d already have a copy). And you

Valid question! On first thought, you would think the only reason to use it would be for media you don’t own (if you own it, you’d already have a copy). And you are probably correct. However there are valid reasons for doing so: many people have posted here that they use it for journalism (fair use) among other things. I do remember years back, LinusTechTips admitted that their video archives were just on hard drives scattered around the building. So if they needed a clip from a previous video, they’d just download the video from YouTube and “crop” down to the clip they needed.[a] [a]: They mentioned this in a video where there were building their “Vault” server that eventually turned into “Petabyte Project.”