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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by smsm42 on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:30PM (#24873739)
That's some prime rate bullshit. Like saying since I could use Linux to download copyrighted materials, and there are guides around which tell how to do so, Linux should be removed from the Internet.

Also a good reminder - never trust a third party to host your files, always have a backup. And hosting your infrastructure on Github means anybody who wants it can take it down with a single letter.

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by saagarjha on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:59PM (#24874728)
> Like

That's the operative word, because it isn't "like" at all to a nontechinical person. If you explain it as "yeah so I have one tool that literally has 'youtube' in its name, and it downloads videos, also some of the test cases to make sure it works show it work on copyrighted videos" and the other one is "people can use it to watch videos…sometimes? Maybe you can even run the first tool on it? But like a billion people use it for completely different things" you can probably see how this works.