Strategically / tactically, the most interesting aspect of the RIAA attack on youtube-dl to me is that it puts Microsoft on the spot to show its true colours. Is it Friend of Free Software, or Copyright Maximalist?
Yes. And since Microsoft and the RIAA are both in the contrived/artificial scarcity business, it’s pretty obvious to me what it’s going to be.
The propertied classes won’t let this crisis pass without using it as an opportunity to further enclose and plunder the commons even more for the working classes.
