Google could sue you (or the websites) for advertisement revenue loss, but it is unlikely. It appears it did so in at least one case. The websites could be sued for breaking the Terms of Services (and the court could order them to stop) and Google can block those websites from accessing YouTube by technical measures. Google could use the Terms of Services to say that the downloader-websites are breaking them and thus should not have access to YouTube. Google is not interested in preventing you from using YouTube (its servers can handle that) and that is pretty much the only punishment it can use. However, I think Google does not even have a technical measure in place to do that.
They may prevent you from viewing any more videos, for example. YouTube's Terms of Service seem to disallow such downloads so YouTube has the right to terminate the agreement with the downloader.
Thus, police has no power to punish you for downloading, and even less power to shutdown such "downloader" websites. In many jurisdictions, downloading music or video of any kind from the internet is not a crime. It is, in most jurisdictions, not a crime to download YouTube videos.įor criminal law, the answer is that it is not illegal.
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