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YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI
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this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2026
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This is the equivalent of calling right-clicking on a picture piracy. Utterly insane.
There are scripts on some sites that attempt to block right-click saving, you know.
Next up: uBlock Origin filters get called piracy
Fyi, if you didn't know: Shift + Right Click in Firefox always brings up the context menu, even if JavaScript tries to block it.
They already have been