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Is it illegal to download videos from Youtube?.

There is a certain website which converts YouTube videos to Mp3's.
Is it illegal?.
Original post by Molybdenum.
There is a certain website which converts YouTube videos to Mp3's.
Is it illegal?.


depends what you're using them for. if it's just to watch them offline, then most likely yes. have a look at youtubes fair use policy.
Downloading vids nah
PoPo 5-0 aren't gonna come knocking anyway
Reply 3
Original post by TheProphetsPath
Downloading vids nah
PoPo 5-0 aren't gonna come knocking anyway


It's not the police I am afraid of, it's Youtube suing me for millions.
Reply 4
Original post by Molybdenum.
There is a certain website which converts YouTube videos to Mp3's.
Is it illegal?.


No it isn't.

Original post by Molybdenum.
It's not the police I am afraid of, it's Youtube suing me for millions.


They don't have the resources to sue millions of people, and they don't own the vids on their site but the person who has uploaded it so they'll be the one suing you if you were to use their video to make profit from.
Reply 5
Original post by kkboyk
No it isn't.



They don't have the resources to sue millions of people, and they don't own the vids on their site but the person who has uploaded it so they'll be the one suing you if you were to use their video to make profit from.


I don't plan on making a single penny out of it.
Original post by kkboyk
No it isn't.



They don't have the resources to sue millions of people, and they don't own the vids on their site but the person who has uploaded it so they'll be the one suing you if you were to use their video to make profit from.


In most cases, other than fair use, it is illegal to download videos from youtube.
Reply 7
Original post by hezzlington
In most cases, other than fair use, it is illegal to download videos from youtube.


And what constitutes "fair use"?.
Reply 8
And by the way i'm not really going to download the videos themselves because that site converts them to an MP3 file.
So basically I am just going to download the audio part of the videos.
Reply 9
You think you're the only one who does that?
Reply 10
Nope
I do that all the time
I been downloading videos from youtube for years now. FBI hasn't knocked in my door. Im still gonna do it

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