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Before you blame Google, think that the main users of yt-dlp could be:

1) multi-billion AI companies which download large amount of videos without permission and without paying

2) Youtube competitors/replacements in countries where Youtube is blocked, which copy the videos without permission and payment

I wish though that Youtube would adjust their policy to block this type of users and let ordinary people download videos.



> this type of user

They are undifferentiable from ordinary users.

And what about users who do adblocking? They are also "not paying" in the same sense - how come they're not included in your list?


They are distinguished by volume. No ordinary user downloads millions of videos.


> No ordinary user downloads millions of videos.

why not? If that ordinary user wants to train their own model? Now you're not allowing such things to be done?


Sorry I forgot that the economy got so good that every "ordinary user" can afford a GPU farm now.




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