Right after? What year is it?

Never. Even if yt blocks the program from downloading from its site, it can still pull from like 10,000 other sites. I doubt google could do anything to actually stop the software from being distributed. We all know how that goes.

It is a very useful piece of software. I’ve never used it to actually download a youtube video.

Our planet is literally dying, and humankind is going to be decimated (at least) directly due to the actions of corporations.

Waze was able to do it (before Google bought them).