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by de6u99er 1370 days ago
I used kapwing once, to cut out a s ction of a YouTube video which I downloaded through some other service and post it on Twitter. I was so positively suprised about the online video editor which allowed me to start editing the video while it was being uploaded, that I created a post on LinkedIn about it.

That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if YT has developed a mechanism to detect content that was downloaded through YT-DL and your company is a victim of an automated tool someone at YT has created to make sure those who steal videos from others will make less revenue.

E.g.: - IGN pays for content or gets content exclusively - someone else downloads the IGN video puts their own watermark over the IGN one and publishes the video as their own. IGN and the company ask - YT to take those videos down which requires lots of people to waste their time for something that could be automated