Music Industry Escalates War on Open-Source Piracy: IFPI Targets yt-dlp in EU Anti-Piracy Filing
Executive Overview The global music industry’s long-running legal battle against stream-ripping and digital media extraction tools has entered a significantly more aggressive phase. In a formal policy submission for the European Commission’s upcoming 2027 EU Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)—the primary lobbying body representing the worldwide recording…
