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

They describe the tool as an application that retrieves content by parsing web page data and interacting with platform playback endpoints, with GitHub serving as the primary delivery method for its source code, pre-compiled binaries, and installation instructions.

Omg, web browsers will be next!

You joke but killing general purpose browsers to sandbox everyone into curated apps would give most middle managing MBAs a priapism.