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YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI (itsfoss.com)
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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

In its submission to the EU's Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List consultation, the group calls yt-dlp "a major problem for the music industry" and names four of its maintainers by their GitHub handles.

Ok, so add YouTube to the list.

this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2026
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