the youtube-dl software has plenty of legal uses. These arguments failed to sway the court.
These sort of court cases spell doom for things like encryption and general-purpose computing more broadly. In effect, the Crypto Wars didn't end, and are being slowly being expanded to cover every aspect of computing. Eventually, free/open-source software may require a license from the State to publish.
There is no choice - we must fight back by all possible means!
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