Then again, there’s the so-called “Betamax case,” a Supreme Court decision from the 1980s that paved the way for legal “time-shifting” of copyrighted broadcast shows with VCRs.

There are “fair use” exceptions to the DMCA for non-commercial research, criticism, commentary, and the like, but it’s hard to imagine that downloading (for example) an entire movie would fly, particularly if you never paid for it. Step5: Click “Download” button directly, or if there is not a download button, then right click the video and choose “Save video as” to download the embedded video to your local hard drive.First and foremost is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, which states that “circumventing a technology measure” to “gain access” to a copyrighted work is illegal. Step4: Right click the link and choose “Open in a new tab”, the embedded video will show and play on a new tab automatically. After done, you can find that the lower left side of the page will show a link. Then, press “F5” shortcut key to refresh the page and play the embedded video again.

Step3: After the Inspect page occurs, click “Network” tab first, then click “Media” sub tab under “Network”. Step2: Press “F12” shortcut key or right click the blank margins of the page, select “Inspect” in Chrome or “Inspect Element” in Firefox. Step1: Run Chrome or Firefox, open the page with the embedded video which you want to download, and then play the embedded video of the current page. Keep reading, here I will demonstrate how to download embedded videos with Chrome/Firefox. To download embedded videos without any software installation is also available.

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