[asadlionpk]

Care to explain?

The YouTube ToS clearly says players shouldn’t play audio without video (aka background audio).

Does scrapping via youtube-dl make it legal?

[jonathansampson]

I just read through the relevant parts of https://www.youtube.com/t/terms again; nowhere in there does it say you cannot play audio _without_ video. Users with less bandwidth shouldn't be punished :)