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Illegal? If VCR and cloud DVR are legal I would expect a personal youtube recorder's legality to be murky but probably acceptable.

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Sorry, bad choice of words. It's against YouTube's TOS, and there have been quite a few YouTube-scraping sites that have been taken down by YouTube/their legal team in the past, so there's precedent for Streamnation to go under the same way.

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