[6stringmerc]

Right, I do understand. I think the point I was trying to make is that "rights holders" made legally binding deals with certain entities, and trying to use those entities (YouTube) in a work-around violates a different kind of binding deal - how a system uses an API. It's pretty hard to describe, but I have a really bad feeling about the approach being shown off and asserted as legitimate.

[ersoft]

I remember that streaming from Youtube on your own website/app is not prohibited by Terms of Service as long as the website/app developer adds the youtube video as embed. If this app shows the embed video in bottom corner (I don't know if it does, it fails to run on my Mac), I don't see it breaking the ToS.

[6stringmerc]

I sincerely doubt that the video runs in the bottom corner, and I'm not going near the program at all. I'm criticizing from far, far away. I like to think I'm on the high ground, metaphorically speaking, after reading what he says it does.

He's just been sued by 3 majors, immediate injunction type of case. My guess? He'll be toast by the end of 2015.