You're already downloading the music when you're watching the video.

If you just so happens to save that video it's not much of a change.

There's no way anyone could enforce anything.

For your own usage no one really cares, spreading it is illegal

And? what about it? It's data on my device.

On my device I can do with that data what I please.

I may be in violation of Youtube's TOS, but Youtube's TOS aren't the law. They can feel free to ban me off their platform but that isn't of any legal consequence.

Now if I'd be going around and distributing that copyrighted material, that'd be a different matter altogether, but the copyright holders have the tools to remove their materials from YouTube knowing how it functions, and choosing to not do so.

Not really. for it to be a privatkopie, you would first need to buy and own the music, like classicaly buying a CD album and then ripping it to your computer. But since you didnt buy the music on youtube, it does not count as a privatkopie.

the thought behind privatkopien is to have a copy of your physical media in case something happens to it (like a cd/dvd beeing scratched and unreadable)

You could always claim you recovered the videos from your browser cache. There they are automatically saved in a DRM free format. 100% legal.

Edit: Reading your other comment right now. Is this no longer the case? I remeber recovering videos using ChromeCacheView for example.

It’s a grey zone you could say it’s the same as like back in the day when you recorded radio with a cassette player but you aren’t recording actually.

Also downloading isn’t really illegal the redistribution of copyrighted material is though and as most use torrent to download their stuff they also redistribute copyrighted material and for that they get in trouble for the law.

depends. that only could apply if downloaded from the copyright owner, if you download it from any reupload it would (theoretically) be illegal, because it is taken from a illegal source

legal? not really (grey area)

punished? no

you don't really need to worry about it, only sharing stuff get's punished, downloading alone doesn't.

idk, never thought about it since I thought downloading music from yt without sharing it (in opposite to p2p like torrents) is not something that is monitored and chased

Illegal unless music is not copyrighted or you don’t own it or paid for copyright

Under the Copyright Act in Canada, there are specific exemptions for personal use of music. One key exemption is the private copying exception, which allows individuals to make copies of sound recordings of musical works for their personal use. This is typically applicable when the copies are made onto a medium that is subject to a levy, such as blank CDs. However, this exemption does not extend to digital copies made on devices like computers or smartphones. Additionally, the fair dealing provisions may apply if the use of the music falls under categories such as research, private study, education, parody, satire, criticism, review, or news reporting, provided that the use is fair.

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I can't speak for the legal side (copyright) but I can say it is against Youtube terms of services, and it isn't the same as copying a CD you own for yourself. Youtube is providing content to be streamed over the internet in exchange for a view and some form of compensation like ads or Youtube Premium. Downloading from a Youtube Downloader is not giving the views and monetary compensation for listening to the song itself. Is it enforced? Not really. Youtube will go after the downloader before they'll go after the user. Just keep in mind the artists aren't being compensated or aren't getting pushed by the Youtube algorithm to other people.

It’s only for personal use, taken from YouTube videos that are already available to everyone for free. Does that change anything, or is it still illegal?

Technically it is illegal, under the Copyright Amendment Act 2006.

As TheOneWes said, YouTube is not free. Artists get paid from either Premium subscriptions or ad revenues, so saving it to a different medium violates anti-circumvention sections of the CAA by preventing artists from receiving revenue for you listening to their music.

I’m not Australian, so I’m not sure how prolific that is or how actively local authorities prosecute such actions, but I cannot imagine anyone 1) founding out you did it and 2) caring enough to go through the effort of fining/prosecuting/jailing you for saving a few songs to listen to.

It's disallowed by their terms of service, so you could potentially find your access to the service revoked.

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Just sign up for YouTube premium. $9.99 a month and you can download all you want.

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Title: Is downloading YouTube content considered illegal?

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> Before I start, I'd like to mention that all words that are bold, are defined or described at the bottom of the thread inside the spoiler. > > Long story short, I use to use an application called 'MP3 Rocket' which downloads the audio from YouTube videos and writes ID3 metadata to the MP3 file. This application was discontinued and I wanted an application which had the same features (mainly writing ID3 metadata). And since I'm a developer I thought of making my own, so I did. > > Now the application I've created basically sends an HTTP request from the user's device to YouTube (which is basically like opening YouTube in your browser), which grabs the direct URL path to the video's audio file, and downloads it (only if it's available). Then it sends HTTP Requests to Genius's API to grab information about the song, like the title, artist, cover photo, published year. Then it web scrapes Genius's song lyrics page OR AZLyrics for the song's lyrics. > > Now my question is, is downloading a YouTube video's audio illegal?
> Because "downloading music files which are copyrighted that you do not hold the copyright to", and "burning compact discs of music that you have not purchased" are both illegal (according to this website). But it also mentions that "Downloading copyrighted songs, which have been made available by the artist for free download. In this case, the copyright holder is allowing the free distribution of their work by posting it themselves and controlling the distribution." then it's legal. Isn't uploading music to YouTube basically distributing music for free? I mean I can listen to the song a thousand times-- for free, instead of buying it. > > And also I'd like to point out that nowhere in this process does my server come in and save any data. Everything is done on the client-side, and nothing is saved on the client-side either, besides the MP3 file. > > Using Genius API to get song information is totally legal, and so is web scraping. Almost every website or service provider, provides an API to access information from their database. And for web scraping, Google would be the biggest company scraping the web to get information, an example would be searching "What's the weather", and it scrapes weather websites and show it on their page so that you don't have to leave Google [screenshot].
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What are you expecting with downloading "legally" from YouTube? All "legally" downloaded videos/music on YouTube are really only on the Mobile/Tablet Apps and only are accessible inside the apps.

Youtube Premium is YouTube music they're bundled togeather now.

Tubly Downloader chrome extension is one of the smoother tools out there. It lets you save audio as MP3 (320 kbps) directly from YouTube, simple and clean, without dealing with spammy converter sites.

Don't download YouTube rips. If you are going to be a pirate, at least be a pirate with standards.

I use yt-dlp.

log in, go to search and enter an artist, filter an album through the bottom right filter. find the folder you want that has the songs u like and right click download folder (making sure you choose the songs u want only cause sometimes it has a lot more). then open the folder where the complete downloads are and move them to your music folder

Soulseek is the answer

Uhh yeah?

I mean that's what I do and have been doing ever since I started listening to music on devices back in the day.

I even still have mp3 players and recently bought one of those Chinese bootleg headphones that have an entrance for SD card and play Mp3s right out of the card itself. Awesome.

Yeah Youtube is a great way of finding good quality mp3s nowadays, I download all sorts of stuff.

Personally when downloading from YouTube you can use apps like Jdownloader2, I also have one called VideoProcConverter, and some people use ytdlp but I personally don't like it because despite being the best YouTube downloader, it's not intuitive, I don't like using command lines and all that stuff and since I don't need the metadata, I just use some general use downloader.

YouTube now has the automated music releases free and straight into the platform, full albums you can listen and download and explore band channels divided into topics. Quality is good enough for video.

You can download YouTube videos with Keeprix Video Downloader. The safest tool I've ever use

Head over to r/youtubedl

sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install -y python3-pip
pip install yt-dlp
yt-dlp https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=PrsLux79e9vt85p9

enjoy!!!

You won't get problem for downloading from YouTube. You have several options:

Desktop

1. YT-DLP
2. Cobalt.tools
3. Lucida
4. My own developed app MediaHarbor

Mobile

1. Seal
2. YTDlnis
3. Newpipe
4. Cobalt.tools

I use https://appsgolem.com/en/cut-youtube-video/ , work well, can select the format resolution.

Ist erlaubt, aber du darfst damit genau genommen kein Geld verdienen.

Mag YouTube nicht, ist aber erlaubt