> It is whether youtube-dl is a tool that enables access to YouTube contents by circumventing a "cipher". YouTube provides a javascript to decrypt it and youtu

> It is whether youtube-dl is a tool that enables access to YouTube contents by circumventing a "cipher". YouTube provides a javascript to decrypt it and youtube-dl just runs it. Unless they are arguing that using a JS interpreter that's not approved by them is circumventing the cipher then no, it's not. And if they are, it's completely insane.