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		FeepingCreature on March 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright s... People want local copies of videos anyways, to get around takedowns. So why not do a Freenet-like thing where videos that you like are cached on your host, so you keep hosting them for others?

uk_programmer on March 5, 2020 [–]

WebTorrents work like regular torrents and can be downloaded via a torrent client. You could just provide a magnet link.

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