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yt-dlp is everywhere - why would they go after pypi and not the source at https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Not that I necessarily believe this is happening, but this can be a case of making an example out of anyone that wants to distribute the software they wanted censored via chilling effects.

Ah, fair. Wouldn't be the first time the US Gov't did that

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