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Re:YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut d... by izacus on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @10:10PM (#20350913)
Cracking and reverse-engineering DRM is already illegal with the accepted US laws, so it's not far fetched for YouTube to be forced to remove those videos as well.
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Re:YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut d... by jessewmc on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @10:14PM (#20350936)
But it is decidedly legal to publish materials that explain how to do so.
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Re:YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut d... by zaarn on Thursday July 04, 2019 @03:33AM (#20352414)
Are you sure about that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
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Re:YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut d... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday July 04, 2019 @09:25AM (#20354379)
Kicking someone in the face is illegal too, but there a million - or more - YouTube videos showing you how to do it, and most towns in my country have more than one class you can go to to learn how to do it (TKD, BJJ, Karate, etc.).

"Well you can use it for defence ..."

White-hat hackers are a thing too.

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Re:YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut d... by ssalka on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @10:29PM (#20351007)
No one here mentioned DRM, though that would be a valid subset of videos to delist under this new rule.

What if I want to reverse engineer my toaster, and make a video about it?

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Re:YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut d... by izacus on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @10:43PM (#20351061)
I'm sure there's a way the toaster company can interpret your video as a copyright or trademark infringement.
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Re:YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut d... by deathhand on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @10:52PM (#20351100)
If you could figure out the order of construction of the parts in the toaster that could be considered intellectual property/trade secret.
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