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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by koheripbal on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @08:28AM (#23079254)
The obvious answer is that the majority use of Chromium and Firefox are not to circumvent copyright.
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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by kaibee on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:44AM (#23080536)
Fortunately, as far as I'm aware, the legality of whether you can provide some service is not based on what the majority use-case is. Otherwise, cryptocurrency would probably be illegal immediately, as I'm pretty sure the current majority use-case is drugs and ransom payments.
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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by ric2b on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @12:40PM (#23093145)
> as I'm pretty sure the current majority use-case is drugs and ransom payments.

Pretty sure based on what?

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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by ehsankia on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:37PM (#23082589)
I wonder if Plex could be in hot waters though. I guess they've been working hard trying to pivot to providing content themselves with a subscription but I'm sure 90% of the Plex use is still for hosting pirated content.
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