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There's no evidence that youtube-dl actually hurts youtube, you could just as easily say it makes people want to watch more youtube. There's also no evidence of

There's no evidence that youtube-dl actually hurts youtube, you could just as easily say it makes people want to watch more youtube. There's also no evidence of any of the other things you said. What I think this comes down to is the music industry is coordinating attacks all over the internet (they do this on twitch too recently), in the hopes they'll get some money out of it. Not much more to it than that.

AntiImperialist 6y ago
There's no evidence that youtube-dl actually hurts youtube What do you mean there's no evidence? There's no evidence it doesn't hurt them either. you could just as easily say it makes people want to watch more youtube Not if videos are ripped and uploaded on Facebook, which has been a problem for them for past few years. There's also no evidence of any of the other things you said. There's no evidence against it either. in the hopes they'll get some money out of it From a guy who maintains an open source tool? Those guys sure have a lot of money.