(i) You must not copy, rip or capture, or attempt to copy, rip or capture,
any audio Content from the Platform or any part of the Platform,
other than by means of download in circumstances where the relevant
Uploader has elected to permit downloads of the relevant item of Content.
From their perspective you are fiddling with their software to bypass restrictions requested by the content creators/uploaders. They will just ban your IP and be done with it. If they can't for whatever reason, I guess they'll have to start obfuscating the protocol.
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You're violating SoundCloud's terms of use:
https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use#acceptance-of-terms-of-u...I thought I'm just extracting the final_download_link, so it would be okay. (As, in the end, content is getting served from their CDN)
From their perspective you are fiddling with their software to bypass restrictions requested by the content creators/uploaders. They will just ban your IP and be done with it. If they can't for whatever reason, I guess they'll have to start obfuscating the protocol.