[mytechtoday]

The action to take down Youtube-dl seemed to be a directed time based action meant to coincide with the election. Most on-line youtube downloading sites were also deplatformed a day or two before the election.

I think that Youtube didn't want users to have the ability to locally save videos that they have seen during the week of the election.

It seems to be a greater attempt to suppress information sharing than anything specific to the copyright.

Youtube just wanted immediate action to prevent people from using the code to get around the online download sites that were also taken down.