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An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/01/16/025217/host-of-youtube-dl-web-site-sued-by-major-record-labels [slashdot.org]
https://torrentfreak.com/major-record-labels-sue-youtube-dl-hosting-provider-220114/ [torrentfreak.com]

This comes just as (12-17-2021) the main dev changed his status to, "inactive."[1]

Gee, I wonder why?

IMO, TPTB won't be satisfied until they get the youtube-dl program completely chased into the underground. Is the successor (yt-dlp) next? (/r/youtubedl)

[1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/21b759057502c6e70d51011cfb3fb86d84055182 [github.com]

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