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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by perardi on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:48PM (#24873171)
cURL could be used to download pornography. Think of the children!
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by boogies on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:56PM (#24873283)
It could download instructions and coordinating communication for drug manufacturing, money laundering, and terrorism! Add them to pædo porn and you have the Four Horsemen of the Infopocalypse! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by nmlnn on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:10PM (#24873483)
And people could use human brains to store that information. We need read/write access to your mind just to be safe!
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by mseidl on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:04PM (#24873408)
If a kid can use curl, then they deserve the porn.
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by boogies on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:11PM (#24873492)
Not everyone considers porn a reward, and not everyone who’s curious about it is guaranteed not to regret it later.
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by azinman2 on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:50PM (#24873203)
It’s about primary purpose.
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by teej on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:55PM (#24873282)
You could make a case that the primary purpose of the internet is to download porn.
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by marv3lls on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:10PM (#24873480)
Avenue Q already has! https://youtu.be/kV7ou6pl5wU
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by fche on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:00PM (#24873342)
"purpose"

this is the "inverse teleological fallacy", q.v.

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by korijn on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:51PM (#24874650)
In that case, let's see what we can do with a gun...
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by awakener62 on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:55PM (#24873275)
No wait lets go one more layer down. Lets attack the net and socket c/c++ libraries as they can also be used to download a little bit of pron.
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by deelowe on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:04PM (#24873398)
Why stop there? Telnet can be used. Or what about wireshark? Let's ban those too. While we're at it, C++ can be used and other programming languages as well. We could keep going.

This whole thing is silly.

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by mulmen on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:13PM (#24874237)
Does cURL feature "here's how to download porn" anywhere in the code base or documentation?
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by einpoklum on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:35PM (#24873804)
> Think of the children!

Suggesting people "think of the children" as they download porn is perhaps not the best advice.