Why would some brunching lawyer know what yt-dl even was unless someone who hired them was making a political play against it? Given youtube-dl is not copyrigh

Why would some brunching lawyer know what yt-dl even was unless someone who hired them was making a political play against it? Given youtube-dl is not copyrighted material the RIAA would have in its mandate, that it replicates functionality that every browser already has, and GitHub is a property of MSFT - this is basically a legal harassment play that implies we're going to need more than decentralized repositories. I'm thinking something like Kali Linux but one that tags certain code repositories as politically exposed and then mirrors them into a distribution via torrents.