They are prohibited by law from adding functionality to download DRM protected content 
And that's not the scope of the software. The scope of the software is to make it easier and faster to download shit from the web, not to specifically download shit protected by Widevine. If you assumed that JD2 is a piracy program you're a fricking r-slur. Plus, it's pretty clear that JD devs would absolutely love to add such functionality to their software, but because they are from a country with draconian laws they cannot do so, and to move to a freer country just to appease a few users that want to download shit from a few websites with DRM is just stupid.
JDownloader2 is great for many other things, including downloading pirated content. For example, you know those shitty download sites with multiple fake download buttons, waiting times and other bullshit like that? JDownloader2 is there so that you paste in a link, it figures out the right download link for you, and if there is a captcha, it'll automatically click it for you so it's as painless as possible.
One complaint I have is that in the recent years all those sites are getting protected by Matthew Princess and JD2 still hasn't figured out how to bypass Cuckflare's cockblock with shared browser cookies or something like that, so a lot of sites no longer really work in JD2.
However, another fantastic use for JD2 is the ability to add accounts and to do inline downloading. You can add a Google account and do 20 simultaneous inline downloads of a file from Google Drive that needs an account to download.
Or, and this is my favorite function, you know how Internet Archive is a safe haven for software piracy because of their DMCA exemption? And how their download speeds are painfully slow? And how their torrents are useless as they never contain all the files and no one ever uses them? And how some collections require you to have an account and direct download anyway?
With JDownloader2 it's actually feasible to grab shit from there by direct download, because you can add your IA account to JD2 to access those login only collections, and then you can start an inline download, so if normally you have that horrendous download speed of 700Kbps, now you have that, but multiplied by 20 times, so you can hit 14Mbps download speeds. Now it takes a few minutes to download a multi-gigabyte ISO instead of a few hours, because you're simultaneously downloading it 20 times. You could try and bop this up even further with advanced options, but JD2 limits it to 20 by default to not overly stress various servers when people use the software out of the box.
There are also other useful functions of JD2, like scanning links so you can grab all the images from a website with a gallery to easily batch download those, or the aforementioned YouTube downloader that's a good way to download and archive YouTube videos if you're a BIPOC, fear the command line and therefore cannot use yt-dlp like a white man, or you're just lazy. But JDownloader2 is not all-encompassing, and yeah, for different sites you'll want different tools, maybe even purpose written.
That is not to say that JDownloader2 is shit and gay because jewish chads and g*rmans and hurr durr they do not appease to my neurodivergent standards. It's irreplaceable for many things, but there are also many things that other software does better or simply do something that cannot be done in JD2. I still use it for inline downloading large files because I don't know other downloaders that let me do so and use site credentials to bypass login restrictions.
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Snapshots:
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/piracy-general.25136/post-18033216:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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Honestly ever since I saw that the 'official' jdownloader2 download was bundled with adware I've never had any respect for it, aria2 will surpass it in any way.
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Just click no lmao
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I'm pretty sure you can't actually install it without clicking yes. It's terrible sexy Indian dudeware.
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You can install it without the associated adware you just click no. There is also a non adware installer https://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2. I just use uget now anyway
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I will never touch this piece of 'jeetware again, I'm also aware of the non adware installer but the 'downloader still disgusts me on principle alone.
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I'm a turbo nerd but never used a download manager -no clue why
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It's because piratecels like to split up downloads as several parts all individually uploaded on 400 different sites. So the idea is you put the links into the manager and it automatically chooses the best links to download from after you copypaste a 500 line list of links into it.
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I miss jd2 prime
days so much bros 
mega used to be so good with it
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