- Downloading from YouTube is NOT illegal.
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But it violates their Terms of Service, and could result in account closure and
revocation.
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But John Emery
(joined Aug 2014) has done it on an enormous scale for years, and has never been caught.
UPDATE 7-28-2018...HE WAS BUSTED. Daaaaaammmnnn.
Excerpts from Youtube's Terms of Service
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YouTube Accounts
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Although YouTube will not be liable for your losses caused by any unauthorized use of your account, you may be
liable for the losses of YouTube or others due to such unauthorized use.
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General Use of the Service
- Prohibited commercial uses do NOT include any use that YouTube expressly authorizes in writing.
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You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline
readers," that accesses the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the YouTube servers in a given
period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, YouTube grants the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders
to copy materials from the site for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly
available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials. YouTube reserves the right
to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases. You agree not to collect or harvest any personally
identifiable information.
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Your Use of Content
In addition to the general restrictions above, the following restrictions and conditions apply specifically to your use
of Content.
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The Content on the Service, and the trademarks, service marks and logos ("Marks") on the Service, are owned by or
licensed to YouTube, subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights under the law.
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Content is provided to you AS IS. You may access Content for your information and personal use solely as intended through
the provided functionality of the Service and as permitted under these Terms of Service. You
shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that
Content. You shall not copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, or otherwise
exploit any Content for any other purposes without the prior written consent of YouTube or the respective licensors of
the Content. YouTube and its licensors reserve all rights not expressly granted in and to the Service and the Content.
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You agree not to circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Service or features
that prevent or restrict use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on use of the Service or the Content
therein.
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You understand that when using the Service, YouTube is not responsible for the intellectual property rights of
or relating to such Content.
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Account Termination Policy
[If a user is caught], YouTube will terminate a user's access to the Service if, under appropriate circumstances,
the user is determined to be a repeat infringer.
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Ability to Accept Terms of Service
You affirm that you are either over 13 years of age, or are over 18 years of age AND
possess legal parental or guardian consent [,or are over 21 years of age whether you posess legal parental or guardian
consent or not].
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