How To Legally Download YouTube Videos

If you want to download videos from YouTube, there are very few legal ways to do that. It's tempting to download videos from YouTube to either watch later or to use as a part of your own video projects, but doing so does introduce some legal issues you need to consider. If you want to download YouTube videos legally to watch later, using YouTube Red is the best way to go. If you want to download YouTube videos to use as a part of your own videos, then you'll need to consult a lawyer about whether your usage of someone else's video is considered Fair Use or not.

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[ReviewerRandom]

Video Summary: "You can't, use Google Red".
Pointless video.

[vantalk]

"How to legally download video..."

Doesn't show how to legally download a video. Report this video for being misleading! I hate clickbait.

[The-Spondy-School]

Can't believe I spent 4 minutes trying to learn how to download videos and was told nothing about it

[dobbrocks]

fact: We all scrolled down into comments to see if this is legit.






and the fact why this dude has so many dislikes :/

[TheWigglesMan]

Came to see how to download YouTube videos without jumping through hoops.

Got a 4 and a half minute YouTube red advertisement instead

[alimaleki]

This should be titled " How To Not Download YouTube Videos"

[stablizershock]

In short you need YoutubeRed he is just talking crap to increase his video watch time.

[Zanderreaper]

Me: sees like to dislike ratio

Me: I love democracy

[DashMatin]

20k likes 23k dislikes
this does put a smile on my face.

[ffrro]

That *”legally”* in the title got u a lot of views

[livelife]

I only want to download videos just so I can watch them later without them getting taken down by YouTube

[dennyhayes]

When copyrights started, they were to help the creator, and many court decisions stated that copyright protection was to encourage creativity, and provide fair rewards to the creator, but not to me used as a monopoly. This originally was the same with patent protection. The problem was that big business got involved, because they had the power to market the creations. So the creator sold the copyrighted material to the big business, usually for peanuts, and the big business made most of the money from it. Big business also had the length of copyrights changed to 50 years beyond the life of the creator. At that time copyright violation was a small offense called a misdemeanor, sort of like a traffic ticket. But big business wanted to add more power to copyrights, so they had something called criminal copyright violation, (a felony) added to the code, if the person made money from the violation, where the person can spend years in federal prison. The code also reflected that criminal copyright violation can only be applied to an individual, not a corporation, or it's members. In the 80s they also allowed the FBI and other criminal divisons to steal homes, cars, money and anything of value from anyone charged with a felony. If the individual spent any amount of money gained from the copyright violation they can be charged with money laundering, and spend 30 years in prison. If they sent or received any phone calls, each phone call gets you 5 more years in prison for wire fraud. If they sent or received and mail they get 5 years for each mailing, called mail fraud. So, if you steal a video and give it to anyone for 10 cents, you can spend the rest of your life in prison and the justice department can steal everything you own. This is definitely not what the copyright creators intended, and is just another example of big business stealing everything and stopping competition.

[gavinc.morrison]

Hey Great Video! You've successfully wasted not only my time, but everybody else's aswell...

[Cronos]

Short Version : Terms of Service say you can not Download with 2 exceptions.
1) The Creator has some deal with youtube such that a download button is explictly provided under the video. Most videos do not have this.
2) Pay for youtube premium services. Everyone knows you hate this - stop pointing it out.
If you download illegally Youtube may close your account. The Owner can engage in further legal actions.

[adachu]

oof there are more disllikes than likes. that what this video deserves for making a youtube red ad and wasting my time with clickbait

[Hipnosys]

watched 3 minutes just to find out this is promoting YOUTUBE RED.... :|

[exiltyyy]

I just wanna Rickroll my friend's.

[waltright]

So it's unethical to download a you tube video to watch on a bus, but it's suddenly ok if you have a Red subscription. Hmm.

[OSW]

I don't think anyone (Creators/YouTube) actually cares about downloading vids, but rather people freebooting/re-uploading them for personal gain (it's happened to me before but what are you gonna do!). At a stretch I could see some Creators getting annoyed, as downloading it means viewers now get to skip the ads (& not contribute to watch time) which hurts the video's performance; even though if you're downloading it you must be a big fan. That said, those fans are likely to support the creator in other ways, and we're likely talking an *extremely* small % of fans (maybe 1/1000 people?) ; so I can't see much lost revenue. Pales in comparison to people using AdBlock or similar plugin.

[nathanielcassella]

i wanted to know how to download youtube videos not a advertisement for youtube red