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> However if you for example made a video essay for youtube talking about the themes (or whatever) of the tv show including clips from it, that would be transformative and probably fine.

Then I get a free pass when downloading the entire disney collection but making a youtube essay video for each downloaded item? So long as I don't seed of course.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but surely you can see how that will never pass muster.


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Uw7yTcf36gTc06/27/2025

downloading is not the illegal part. distribution is the illegal part.

if you watch a video from a site that has a Disney movie on there, the site distributing the content to you is doing the illegal part. You are not doing anything illegal (AFAIK).