diff --git a/client/src/app/videos/+video-edit/shared/video-edit.component.html b/client/src/app/videos/+video-edit/shared/video-edit.component.html
index 46eb019b1..70d535055 100644
--- a/client/src/app/videos/+video-edit/shared/video-edit.component.html
+++ b/client/src/app/videos/+video-edit/shared/video-edit.component.html
@@ -126,8 +126,8 @@
             ></my-peertube-checkbox>
 
             <my-peertube-checkbox
-                    inputName="downloadingEnabled" formControlName="downloadingEnabled"
-                    i18n-labelText labelText="Disable downloading"
+              inputName="downloadingEnabled" formControlName="downloadingEnabled"
+              i18n-labelText labelText="Disable downloading"
             ></my-peertube-checkbox>
 
             <my-peertube-checkbox
diff --git a/server/controllers/api/videos/index.ts b/server/controllers/api/videos/index.ts
index ec25006e8..4b6d1b847 100644
--- a/server/controllers/api/videos/index.ts
+++ b/server/controllers/api/videos/index.ts
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ async function addVideo (req: express.Request, res: express.Response) {
     licence: videoInfo.licence,
     language: videoInfo.language,
     commentsEnabled: videoInfo.commentsEnabled || false,
-    downloadingEnabled: videoInfo.downloadingEnabled || false,
+    downloadingEnabled: videoInfo.downloadingEnabled || true,
     waitTranscoding: videoInfo.waitTranscoding || false,
     state: CONFIG.TRANSCODING.ENABLED ? VideoState.TO_TRANSCODE : VideoState.PUBLISHED,
     nsfw: videoInfo.nsfw || false,
diff --git a/server/helpers/custom-validators/activitypub/videos.ts b/server/helpers/custom-validators/activitypub/videos.ts
index 34e4cdff9..59964f91a 100644
--- a/server/helpers/custom-validators/activitypub/videos.ts
+++ b/server/helpers/custom-validators/activitypub/videos.ts
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ function sanitizeAndCheckVideoTorrentObject (video: any) {
   // Default attributes
   if (!isVideoStateValid(video.state)) video.state = VideoState.PUBLISHED
   if (!isBooleanValid(video.waitTranscoding)) video.waitTranscoding = false
+  if (!isBooleanValid(video.downloadingEnabled)) video.downloadingEnabled = true
 
   return isActivityPubUrlValid(video.id) &&
     isVideoNameValid(video.name) &&
diff --git a/server/tools/peertube-upload.ts b/server/tools/peertube-upload.ts
index e7b885a38..e2ba4bdbc 100644
--- a/server/tools/peertube-upload.ts
+++ b/server/tools/peertube-upload.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ if (!program['tags']) program['tags'] = []
 if (!program['nsfw']) program['nsfw'] = false
 if (!program['privacy']) program['privacy'] = VideoPrivacy.PUBLIC
 if (!program['commentsEnabled']) program['commentsEnabled'] = false
-if (!program['downloadingEnabled']) program['downloadingEnabled'] = false
+if (!program['downloadingEnabled']) program['downloadingEnabled'] = true
 
 getSettings()
   .then(settings => {