Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by jcranmer on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:49PM
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There's some definitions that are also relevant:
(A) to “circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure” means avoiding, bypassing, removing, deactivating, or otherwise impairing a technological measure; and
(B) a technological measure “effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, prevents, restricts, or otherwise limits the exercise of a right of a copyright owner under this title.
I don't believe the protections that youtube-dl works around qualify under the definition 1201(b)(2)(B) here, but I would definitely want to confer with a lawyer before posting a DMCA counterclaim.
(A) to “circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure” means avoiding, bypassing, removing, deactivating, or otherwise impairing a technological measure; and
(B) a technological measure “effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, prevents, restricts, or otherwise limits the exercise of a right of a copyright owner under this title.
I don't believe the protections that youtube-dl works around qualify under the definition 1201(b)(2)(B) here, but I would definitely want to confer with a lawyer before posting a DMCA counterclaim.