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When the topic of downloading YouTube videos comes up, there's a side subject that must be broached: Is it legal? When it comes to copyright, as long as you're downloading a video for your own personal offline use, you're probably okay. It's  more black  and white when you consider  Google's terms of service for YouTube , which reads: "You shall not download any Content unless you see a 'download' or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content." After all, watching YouTube videos offline is taking money out of Google's pocket and those of the videos' creators. There's a reason YouTube runs pre-roll ads: people make a living that way. So, let's be clear, taking video from YouTube is a big no-no. If you want to   share   a video, YouTube makes it pretty damn easy to do, from embedding to emailing to sharing via social networks. You don't really need to download a video most of the time. But maybe yo...