This reminds me of people saying that downloading YouTube videos is illegal... even though they need to make them freely available and you need to download them

This reminds me of people saying that downloading YouTube videos is illegal... even though they need to make them freely available and you need to download them to your hard drive and make copies into RAM and/or VRAM to watch them in the first place. (Note also that YouTube does not actually use a streaming protocol, but replicates some features of streaming protocols like bitrate adaptation by downloading by chunks over HTTP(S).) ---- Also maybe how VLC is illegal to use as is in countries enforcing the DMCA or MPEG licenses : https://wiki.videolan.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions/#What_about_personal.2Fcommercial_usage.3F https://wiki.videolan.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions/#What_a...