<div>There are many potential reasons.</div><div><br></div>For quotation, such as if you're partaking in a video conversation or referencing another video in yours (which is allowed under copyright law as "Fair Use").<div>
<br></div><div>Or just because you feel like playing it in a decent player instead of a browser, or if you want to distribute them somewhere else. There's plenty of videos on YouTube under a Creative Commons license which explicitly allows for that.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also you might foresee being offline for a while, in which case you might want an offline version.</div><div><br></div><div>That's just what comes to mind right away. I'm sure there are more reasons that others have.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson</div><div><a href="mailto:helgi@binary.is">helgi@binary.is</a></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:18 PM, John Lange <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@johnlange.ca">john@johnlange.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I'm just curious, why do people need to download youtube videos ?<br>
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