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Originally Posted by Besmee
Just a question, I don't do this...
but would it be illegal to get music off Youtube? Like using those sites where you can download videos from Youtube?
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depends on where you live, in the states the rio case makes it illegal to make a recording/save content onto a hard drive that's streamed to you. you're allowed to record it onto a cassette tape though.
youtube videos are streamed(i don't think they're stored in your browser cache), but the server wouldn't know if you're streaming it as part of a web page(into memory) or into a file on your hard drive. so getting caught means the riaa has a warrant to forensically scan your hard drive based on some other insident.
with p2p the riaa participates in filesharing and can see your ip which they can trace back to your address with less than 100% accuracy, google historically doesn't share ip addresses over petty things like downloading off youtube, although google doesn't like it cause it messes with their analytics and ad revenue.
i'm not sure if the riaa has control over recordings of live concerts though, especially when it's just some guy in the audience who recorded it, they also don't represent every band in america or the world, and finally, if the owner of the copyrights puts it on youtube and writes in the description that you're allowed to download it then you can.