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YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI

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YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Their submission to the EU's piracy watchlist places the open source tool in the same category as illegal downloading websites.

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Because if you have it, they can’t charge rent to use it.
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  and they can’t keep collecting your privacy data to sell when you try to go watch it again

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