It's pretty clear that what's going on is they are violating YouTube's terms of service and so if she were to be honest that would be grounds for a lawsuit.<p>Relevant part of the TOS<p>"""
Permissions and Restrictions
You may access and use the Service as made available to you, as long as you comply with this Agreement and applicable law. You may view or listen to Content for your personal, non-commercial use. You may also show YouTube videos through the embeddable YouTube player.<p>The following restrictions apply to your use of the Service. You are not allowed to:
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access the Service using any automated means (such as robots, botnets or scrapers) except (a) in the case of public search engines, in accordance with YouTube’s robots.txt file; or (b) with YouTube’s prior written permission;
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"""<p>Sora is not a public search engine, and pretty sure they didn't get YouTube's permission to scrape.<p>Full TOS
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms</a>