I'm also surprised Disney hasn't figured out a way to claim a ride experience offers the same intellectual property as watching a movie (i.e., you wouldn't openly film in a movie theater, especially with music copyrights, etc).
Shhhhh….
As someone who has never visited Disneyland California, Paris, or Tokyo, I enjoy getting to virtually experience the rides and parks.
As someone who infrequently visits WDW (20 year gap last time), I like to check out changes, relive places and attractions, and see details I may have missed.
As an amateur historian and lover of the art and science of themed environments and attractions as well as the Disney parks, I deeply appreciate people who recorded and shared attraction videos in the past. Their footage is often all that’s left of once-loved but now lost attractions and experiences. (RIP classic EPCOT Center).
As someone who enjoys well made YouTube educational videos that utilize this sort of footage, these recordings are tools for learning.
Don’t let Chapek hear you!
That said, what I don’t like and can’t stand are self important idiots running around with a camera in their face trying to make an easy buck self-promoting all over the parks, being obnoxious and self centered. They run their mouths constantly, making a spectacle of themselves (even if they claim they don’t ). They all think they are a star so interesting people hang on their every word and thought. Their vocabularies and palettes are severely limited, and education and life experiences so minimal they cannot make connections or comprehend things right in front of them. Their videos/livestreams aren’t even good because they talk all over them about nothing, center filming on themselves, swing cameras around like ADD preschoolers, and go obliviously past things that could have been interesting. I can’t stand it at all.