Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by rovr138 on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:13PM
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Any input or output device
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by tanseydavid on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:15PM
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No joke -- if they could get the legislation signed into law they would be thrilled.
They could care less about side-effects and collateral consequences for adjacent technologies and use cases.
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by Chirael on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:56PM
(#24875990)
They would prefer it if you only used DRM input and output devices that only run approved code rather than general purpose devices that can run any code you can conceive of or download [1]
[1] "The Coming War on General Purpose Computation" https://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-...