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

In Sweden you are allowed to make copies for private useage. I can record and save whatever piece of media I want, as long as I don’t distribute it to other people and the material itself is not illegal (abuse material for example).

The problem in cases like this is not the copying, but the ability to bypass DRM. Creating and distributing tools that can do that is illegal in the US due to the DMCA. I think there are similar laws in the EU but I’m not sure.

You’re going to get downvoted because pirates, by and large, feel entitled to other people’s labor for free. I’ve been pirating for two+ decades and I’m fully aware that what I’m doing is wrong. It’d be great if people could stop trying to justify their actions.

Think of the poor billionaires!

Piracy is morally right, we don’t owe them anything.

We see that copyright only matters to them if it is convenient, the latest example is training AI on copyrighted works without licenses. But there are many others.

It is also ironic that copyright was originally created to protect small authors from having a big corporation steal their creation and profit from it. Which is still happening. This is also the reason why originally copyright supposed to last 14 years. Because it was thought that 14 years was long enough time to have monopoly on idea

Only after corporations started bribing politicians they extended it to such ridiculous times and completely changed what copyright really was.