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But GitHub found that YouTube-dl was used in non-copyright infringing ways by journalists and educators.Ĭontent on YouTube that is permissible to download includes public domain videos that aren't copyrighted, clips covered by a Creative Commons license, and homemade videos that friends and family have shared with you (and don't mind you downloading). GitHub reinstated the open-source tool YouTube-dl after taking the software down when the Recording Industry Association of America complained that it violated Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. However, the issue isn't totally black and white. If you violate the YouTube ToS, the company may terminate your account, as noted here: 'YouTube will terminate a user's access to the Service if, under appropriate circumstances, the user is determined to be a repeat infringer.' Its legal because they outsource the criminal activity and then 'try their hardest' to enforce it.If you want to download YouTube videos, the only way to do so responsibly is by paying the $11.99 for YouTube Premium. They say its for web scraping, but if the website wanted to be scraped it wouldn't block you for it, and you wouldn't need the proxies.

Now they have some checks and balances, but there's no legitimate reason for someone to need residential http traffic without consent (I say without consent because the victims do not understand what they agree to when they install this, but technically they do give legal consent). So, as you can imagine, your house could literally be raided and your dog shot because someone rented your IP to commit a serious crime.

They are clamping down on fraud a bit more because, as expected, their service was mostly used to commit crimes with random people's IP addresses. If anyone is curious about what Hola is, its a 'free' vpn that adds you to a legal botnet that can be rented out by anyone:

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