So, according to the RIAA's claim, it's > (i) circumvent the technological protection measures used by authorized streaming services such as YouTube, > and >

So, according to the RIAA's claim, it's > (i) circumvent the technological protection measures used by authorized streaming services such as YouTube, > and > (ii) reproduce and distribute music videos and sound recordings owned by our member companies without authorization for such use. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-2... (i) is strange claim as youtube-dl simply implements various streaming protocols public to anyone, most commonly used protocol is HLS which is just a simple list of URIs of small portion of video files in text file over HTTP/HTTPS. No technological protection whatsoever. (ii) can be easily avoided by simply removing or changing the example usage.