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		samrat on Oct 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Send Youtube videos to your Dropbox folder It's the latter. Dropbox doesn't allow transloading files from arbitrary URLs, so it has to travel through my server.

OpenAmazing on Oct 20, 2011 [–]

Careful. That makes you liable for copyright violations. Better to use the user's computer.

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