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How does YouTube prevent the storage / redistribution of video content?

Of course, you can embed YouTube videos on any site, but the content should ultimately come from your server. What is their technology (s) that is preventing us from saving / redistributing content?

From the point of view of the protocol, you might think that everything that comes through the wire can be saved. I hope I'm not the only guy on Earth who doesn’t know how to “save” a video on YouTube ...

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There are several plugins for Firefox that allow you to save content. It basically analyzes the source code and searches for a video file (.flv or .mp4) and downloads it directly. The flash player on the page simply plays the provided file. They could, of course, confuse the path to the video file, but it could also be reverse engineering. They can not do anything about it, because the video file must be on the user's computer at some point, or if not, the stream can also be intercepted.

eg. https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/6584/?src=api

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You might want to look at the “analog hole”, after all, the data still needs to be displayed on your screen or passed through the speakers, and what not. It is always theoretically possible to intercept it at this moment or even just record the audio output to another machine.

So, as far as the analog hole is concerned, the only solution is to skip this in this form:

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