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that's their problem to deal with. why is everyone here going all 'think of the poor corporations'

I think you're reading it as "as a user, you must not do this because...", when the GP meant it as "as Google, the reason I'm doing this is because..."

Well, when they "deal with it", we'll all be complaining even harder. The fact that they've gone relatively light on obfuscation and security against things like yt-dlp for such a long time is basically tacit approval at this point. I wouldn't want to bite that hand.

By the same logic, fare evasion is "metro company's problem to deal with".

It technically is, but if someone makes a programmer's salary and still jumps over turnstiles, I consider it a big red flag over their personality.

That organization would probably parallelize the download on multiple video level, not necessarily on subrange level on a single video.

What is complicated about throttling downloads, let’s say X times the bitrate of the video? I am sure Google’s engineers can implement something ever more complex

Is it technically or financially feasible to mirror YouTube?