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[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

it downloads them directly from YouTube

Thus, pirating them. More or less by the same method that is used to download every single WEB-DL movie/episode you see on torrent sites.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

It’s not pirating if you’re obtaining a video that they’re making available to you for free lmao.

Otherwise it would be “pirating” to just load up YouTube.com in your browser and watching any old video.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

Youtube doesn't let you download the videos directly. If they did, you'd be right. The fact that the original yt-dl was shut down by Youtube kinda disproves your point all by itself.