@www.richardorilla.websiteApparently, the IFPI is pushing to label #ytdlp as a #piracy tool. Even as a paying #YouTube Premium subscriber, this feels like blatant harassment of #opensource maintainers.
If we normalize treating general-purpose tools like services, what’s next? Banning #torrent clients? Web browsers?
@geekrealmhub.bsky.socialIFPI wants the EU to add yt-dlp to its 2027 Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List, arguing the open-source tool enables unauthorized saving of music from streaming platforms. The submission also names four developers. yt-dlp has 190K+ GitHub stars.
