I feel most peertube users would not care. But is it legal, or a chance that some one might sue?

edit: added claritiy to the question title and post body.

Peertube is an open source platform where I feel most users are posting there just to have fun and as a hobby for no or little profit. While Youtube is ad supported and creators on there now days want to use it to make profit.

On Peertube should it be legally acceptable to download uploaded videos for free for offline use? Is it legally acceptable?

  • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Your web browser or app downloads videos whenever you stream them, nothing illegal about it. Only difference when you use yt-dl is that the video gets saved on your device storage instead of being cached temporarily.

    • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      About number 2, invidious got a letter sent to them by youtubes legal goblins a few months ago trying to make the argument that downloading vids is violating their TOS. The thing is, invidious doesnt use YouTube’s APIs and instead uses the regular way browsers stream content to do its thing. Nothing ever came of this and invidious is still going strong, so while YouTube/google would really really like 2. To be true in order to murk the 3rd party scrapers, as it currently stands it as long as they aren’t using YouTube’s APIs they aren’t breaking TOS (that they never agreed to)

      I’m not a lawyer though and could be wrong, this is just my current uneducated understanding of that situation. Just my 2c

    • rob299@bookwormstory.social
      OPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      There are few legal differences.

      1. in cache its harder for the average nontech person to access a cached video outside the website. Additionay in cache it’s considered a temporary store to help aid the service than a permament one.

      2. When you download a video on Youtube it is probally against their terms of use while doing the same on Peertube seem widely permited by the playform based on the license the user uses. There are fewer Peertube videos that dont allow downloads then do.

      With that said, a concerning amount of them have unknown selected as their license. So its hard to tell most of the time when its ok with the creator to download and if their ok/cool with it.