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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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Going to YouTube and having your browser download the video so you can watch it would be an approved way to download the video, making further copies of it more than likely not.
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  YT-DLP doesn’t make further copies. It downloads a video file from YouTube the exact same way your browser does.

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