Downloading from Crunchyroll, has it ever been pointed as "piracy"?

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Just curious if it had been pointed at, as some act of piracy.

Possible scenarios:
Downloading free content via extractor (in this case, quality is limited to SD and ads show up throughout, however youtube-dl seems to bypass both even without login, provides download options up to 19201080)
*Downloading premium content via extractor, logged in (in this case, site provides VFV service only for the offline mode)
I would like to ask if usage of youtube-dl anyhow violates the ToS of it, or considered piracy. I know of the "no violation of ToS for extractors" rule, as I have read the link a few lines above, however I am curious about it because unlike most of the extractors out there this one is maybe the longest and uses the most sophisticated way, even that it stream captures. On its way it deals with a LOT of crypto files.

I may have mistakes taken (I probably have a lot), feel free to correct them.

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