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by crtasm 686 days ago
Note that YouTube's ToS doesn't allow this either, be aware what you're potentially getting into by releasing a tool that rips music from there.
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Uploaders can choose a video license. Since there is no download button for those videos, I've always wondered if that is a creative commons' violation and therefore Youtube should run into the same legal issue that StackOverflow currently is (ctrl+f "violat" https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/401324/announcing-a...), namely that this terminated google's (but nobody else's) license to use the video under these creative commons terms