I agree with you, and I think the music industry's abuse of the legal system should be criminal. That said, they don't know if youtube-dl users are planning to

I agree with you, and I think the music industry's abuse of the legal system should be criminal. That said, they don't know if youtube-dl users are planning to share their files in torrents, upload them to random websites, etc. I think their goal is just to prevent anyone listening to music in DRM-free environments, regardless of how harmful of a crusade they have to go on.