The lawsuit is not about downloading, but about enabling circumventing protections.

By your analogy, it's not about the shops selling kitchen knives, but hosting a side door to a protected weapons/knifes shop.

(I hate analogies. In general. But wtf is that analogy now that we included more context?)

What logic do you mean?

Images are typically not encrypted with protection measures [in transit].

I don't get your argument. FreeTube is nowhere near as big as Wikipedia or GitHub. Are you not using any free software?

LibreOffice, Gimp, System Informer, Nushell, Thunderbird, Firefox, Steam, this Lemmy instance, Matrix, … I don't know what to tell you. I can go through all the applications and websites I use and I'll have a hard time finding some that sell my user data.