Question video and audio downloader

[richmanx]

Hello! I am editing videos for my YouTube channel by downloading and converting videos in MP3 and MP4 formats. I can't find a good website for downloading. Either the download is very slow, the website is overwhelmed with ads, or there are errors during downloading – sometimes it doesn't work at all. Especially downloading copyrighted videos is very difficult. I want to download videos not only from YouTube but also from other platforms, and I don't want to deal with this separately. Even though I use a download manager, it doesn't download all the videos and errors occur. Do you know of one or more reliable websites that fulfill all these requirements? Thank you in advance!

 

[punkncat]

You realize that you cannot download and use copyrighted material in your own work, correct?

 

[richmanx]

You realize that you cannot download and use copyrighted material in your own work, correct?

I sometimes use copyrighted music, and the copyright owner and YouTube allow it; you just can't earn money from it. There's no problem with this. I've used it many times, you can check.(https://www.youtube.com/@startnowdoing )

 

[InvalidError]

You realize that you cannot download and use copyrighted material in your own work, correct?

There is a thing called "fair use" that does allow you to use copyrighted stuff in your own work as long as it is transformative enough that it cannot reasonably be considered a substitute for the original material. There is also an exception for commentary and sattire. Thunderf00t has many debunking videos going second-by-second through the snakeoil salesmen' sales pitch which the original owners tried taking down by filing DMCA claims against his channel and he got all of those reversed eventually with DMCA counter-claims or threatening to sue for filing DMCA notices under false pretenses. Can't use the DMCA to prevent people from calling BS on your demonstrable BS.

 

[richmanx]

There is a thing called "fair use" that does allow you to use copyrighted stuff in your own work as long as it is transformative enough that it cannot reasonably be considered a substitute for the original material. There is also an exception for commentary and sattire. Thunderf00t has many debunking videos going second-by-second through the snakeoil salesmen' sales pitch which the original owners tried taking down by filing DMCA claims against his channel and he got all of those reversed eventually with DMCA counter-claims or threatening to sue for filing DMCA notices under false pretenses. Can't use the DMCA to prevent people from calling BS on your demonstrable BS.

So we can use as a result

 

[InvalidError]

So we can use as a result

Depends on how, how much and whether you are willing to fight off a DMCA claim against you if whoever owns the stuff you used disagrees with your fair use claim.

 

[punkncat]

Gotcha, so you can use other people's content for certain "fair use", but cannot monetize the video when you do?

I see so many channels just outright avoid doing so, even so far as to mute or even blur aspects of a video where say something like car radio playing next to them could cause the video to be flagged. I note that some of the reviewers will mention that they specifically asked permission (for instance) to use part of another reviewer or content creators' video when doing so. I figured it was a no bueno thing.

Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[InvalidError]

Gotcha, so you can use other people's content for certain "fair use", but cannot monetize the video when you do?

Depends on how transformative it is and how confident you are about winning a DMCA dispute. People are muting music and blurring parts of videos because YT algorithms have a tendency of auto-flagging stuff and when your videos get auto-flagged shortly after upload, you lose most ad-views by the time you might successfully appeal the algorithms' auto-flagging.

What some people are doing to mitigate that is upload videos as private with monetization, wait for a few days to see whether algorithms will auto-flag something, appeal the flagging if it is when it shouldn't have been or edit the video to remove the problematic parts before re-uploading, then make the cleaned video public.

You also have people like Sterling from Jimquisition who simply slap a bunch of content from the most prolific DMCA litigants as background noise such that their conflicting DMCA claims make his channel unmonetizable by anybody.

 

[Ralston18]

Bottom line being that if you are legitimately and heavily invested in doing such things ("fair use") then get legal advice.

The time, effort, grief and eventual legal costs involved in fighting it all may far exceed any immediate monies.

Especially if livelihood is at stake.

 

[richmanx]

Bottom line being that if you are legitimately and heavily invested in doing such things ("fair use") then get legal advice.

The time, effort, grief and eventual legal costs involved in fighting it all may far exceed any immediate monies.

Especially if livelihood is at stake.

The process actually works like this: YouTube asks the copyright owner if they permit the video to be used on my platform without monetization. When the copyright owner agrees to usage without monetization, they grant permission. In some of my videos, I've encountered a copyright claim that says, 'The rights owner doesn't want this video to be shown in "x" country,' and the video is not viewable in those countries.