It would have made an interesting ST: TNG episode where the Federation orders the Enterprise to attack a planet where the National Potato Council claims there are pirates writing replicator software to distribute free food. Meanwhile, the B plot is Data struggling to manage his subscriptions to holodeck sims.

Bypassing ads is already technically piracy as the concept of piracy is the idea you are stealing potential revenue.

So YT-DLP would be piracy aswell since it denies them revenue by allowing you to download the media.

Just wait till they start sueing people for each YouTube clip they download like they did with mp3s.

However, If you incorporate... feel free to pirate everything, unless youre Chinese...

In its submission to the EU's Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List consultation, the group calls yt-dlp "a major problem for the music industry" and names four of its maintainers by their GitHub handles.

Ok, so add YouTube to the list.

This is the equivalent of calling right-clicking on a picture piracy. Utterly insane.

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!

There’s an EU piracy watchlist? Did anyone submit Facebook to it?

of course they are crying about piracy again.

the music industry cries about piracy every time their sales slump.

Couldnt possibly be 90% of music is copy and paste slop. not to mention the rise of actual AI slop "music"

Company happly sends media to my computer when requested.

Company angry my computer do what I want with the media it got.

I don't think these assholes understand that its a VERY useful tool for archiving the internet, which helps keep powerful people accountable. We must fight to keep this tool so that journalists and activists can keep speaking truth to power.

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

Man fuck them. A garden hose is a tool, just because I can choke my asshole neighbor to death with it doesn't make it a garrote.

That's just politicians caving to their financial sponsors. The American entertainment industry tried and failed to make the same case against VCRs in the 1970s, and audio cassette recorders in the 1960s. Downloading by itself isn't "piracy".

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).

Now can the IFPI treat genAI vendors as "commercialized piracy outlets"?

When I first got into emulation as a very early teen, I've heard a rumor about an admin of an Amiga ROM site being shot to death for piracy. However, nothing similar comes to against those who do it on an industrial scale, specifically to destroy a portion of the human experience.

Nah, bro. I'm using it to train my ai. Trust me bro.

cassette tapes are going to melt their brains

Just so you know, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) represents around 8,000 music labels across 70 countries.

Chucklefucks. Some unsigned artists, especially underground rappers, uploaded their tracks to Youtube, long before Facebook video and Spotify. That I also use DLP to grab very interesting videos before they can be unlisted or deleted.

Allow me to explain why piracy can’t die in a way buisness majors can understand.

She’s gorgeous. She’s fantastic in bed. She pegs you and won’t tell anybody. You want to marry her.

You will be subjected to nonstop crazy bullshit for the rest of your life. She’s no longer fun, just expensive. She’s abusive. Nobody is happy.

And now she has ads.

You drink more. You stop coming home after work until she’s asleep. You refer to local hookers by their legal first names.

One day she throws a clot and dies. And you feel relief. The abuse, the lies, the manipulation, the pretending to be happy is finally done. You are free.

This in an anolgy for streaming services.

An association has to always look like they are doing something for their members. that's all.

OK. Is ffmpeg piracy or are they gonna continue to use it and not fund it?

There aren’t enough bullets going through their corrupt faces, apparently.

IIRC Google researchers have publicly used it for machine learning experiments. For example, for grabbing a sample video as part of some demo code.

Ridiculous horseshit, fuck these clowns.

And here we see copyrighta blightus, the copyblight firm to the rest of us, looking to expand it's territory.

This species is, of course, an invader to the quiet widely watched waves; an invasive element that can, and will, upset the local ecosystem.

If you listen closely, you can hear the call of these parasites; it sounds a little like "you wouldn't steal a car".