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I am not a lawyer so please consult a lawyer before taking any action. The fact of the matter is they own the copyright on their videos. And while they don't have any security persay on their videos beyond the obfuscation of the urls that does not change the fact that you do not have permission to share those links to said videos.

Those links are provided to paying customers. By sharing them to non paying customers you are effectively breaking their digital rights management of their content (as awful as it is). Thus they are fully within their right right issue you a cease and desist and follow up should you fail to obey.

Again. Not a lawyer. Consult a proper one before you take any action.

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> have permission to share those links to said videos.

Also not a lawyer, but links aren’t copyrighted and don’t require any special permission to share.

The reason why pirate bay and others got in trouble for sharing links is that they were linking to copyright infringing material.

Linking to the copyright holder where they publicly host content is not the same.

If they have want restricted access then they should configure restricted access. This is why Netflix makes you log in, etcetc

Weev went to jail for publishing data AT&T left on the open internet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach

The reality is lawsuits cost money, whether the defendant is right or wrong. In America, the process is the punishment.

Signing up for a subscription to a site and sharing the acccount is illegal. But there you are essentially just sharing a link that contains a secret. That secret is the username and password. But nothing wrong in that secret being a uuid, which is what we have in this case.

Not saying that their “security” is snot bad. But you can’t defend a car theft by saying that the defendant left the key in the ignition.

Those links are public.

I can sell my public website to paying customers, but cannot prevent non-paying customers to see the links. There is no TOS or agreement with non-paying customers to agree to pay me money, they are free to click on links.

Their digital chains management is not affected.

Your best statement is your last paragraph, you are not a lawyer.

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