You do realize you are supporting the impeding of technological progress.
I never thought that was conservative.
Oh, give me a break. It wouldn't have been that difficult for the OP to at least mention the implications of downloading files from YouTube. Nor would it be too difficult for you to have the decency to admit that calling people Nazis without the slightest justification isn't exactly conservative, either. Nor is deciding which laws are worth obeying & which aren't, or appointing one's self the judge of what constitutes material useful enough to deserve copyright protections.
If a work's creator encourages its download, that's great. But in some cases they're not even the copyright holders. My take on this is that most people are going to use these programs to download music videos and clips of television programs. I wouldn't download one second of one clip unless I know damn well it's legal. You can do whatever you want, including calling people Nazis if it makes you feel better. Meanwhile, nobody's blocking progress that I can see. But until we have guidelines on what is legal and what isn't, you can still view without running afoul of the law, to my knowledge, even if something was uploaded without authorization, and since it's easy enough to email these things around & bookmark them, I don't see why it's necessary to possess things you don't own if they're available.
If they're yanked because of some political issue, that's a different issue. I've seen plenty of conservative-leaning stuff on YouTube. The NK clip being pulled makes no sense. But a lot of people won't use Google because they lean left, and I've seen posts suggesting that nobody should use Ebay because they donate to Democrats.