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YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI (itsfoss.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 113 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah, the content mafia really hates everything that makes us actually own something.

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[–] bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Because if you have it, they can't charge rent to use it.

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[–] BrownSugarBits@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

and they can't keep collecting your privacy data to sell when you try to go watch it again

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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

content mafia

Oh man, I just had flashbacks to the days we used to refer to the riaa/mpaa as the MAFIAA

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