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

By Autobot 1 Oct 2026 in cm0002 Original post by cm0002@europe.pub 1 Oct 2026 on privacy@programming.dev
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YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI

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  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞2via opensource@programming.dev

    I'm thankful for the project.

    I spend 4.5 hours in dialysis, three days per week.

    I was previously using a family Youtube membership provided by a friend. They recently killed my access for geographic reasons, thus meaning that I couldn't play the playlist I normally play without leaving my phone screen on, killing my battery.

    So I used yt-dlp to download the playlist and put it on my phone, using VLC to play it now.

    Fuck these people who want to shut that project down. Youtube is getting money for a service I was using and can no longer.

    Be like Valve/Steam. Make it easy to give you money and make the service better than piracy, not worse.

  • ch00f29via opensource@programming.dev

    I just finished Enshitification by Cory Doctorow.

    In it, he points out that your right to record what is on TV for your personal use was hard won and completely legal only for it to later be uninvented.

    And now we're back to debating if it's legal.

  • onlinepersona7via opensource@programming.dev

    Put it on radicle and watch them try to take it down. It'll be hilarious.