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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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That's just politicians caving to their financial sponsors. The American entertainment industry tried and failed to make the same case against VCRs in the 1970s, and audio cassette recorders in the 1960s. Downloading by itself isn't "piracy".