Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by TheOtherHobbes on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:01PM
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Lawyers are not engineers. Corporate lawyers are mercenary thugs with assistants, expensive suits, and very very very high daily rates.
This is the kind of thing is that lawyers do, because this is what they're paid to do.
You cannot win this by simply saying "Hands off our code - this is outrageous" because that's not how the law works.
If you want to make an argument agains this you literally have to make it stand up in court, and that is not easy.
While lawyers are sometimes foul and shameless creatures, the engineering community does not seem to understand that it is not playing on its own turf here.
If you do not take the time to understand the rules of the game you will lose hard. In this case the RIAA could easily have sued for damages and loss of earnings - and it would probably win that case if it came to court, although someone in counsel probably argued (wisely) that it wouldn't be worth the Streisand Effect damage.
This is the kind of thing is that lawyers do, because this is what they're paid to do.
You cannot win this by simply saying "Hands off our code - this is outrageous" because that's not how the law works.
If you want to make an argument agains this you literally have to make it stand up in court, and that is not easy.
While lawyers are sometimes foul and shameless creatures, the engineering community does not seem to understand that it is not playing on its own turf here.
If you do not take the time to understand the rules of the game you will lose hard. In this case the RIAA could easily have sued for damages and loss of earnings - and it would probably win that case if it came to court, although someone in counsel probably argued (wisely) that it wouldn't be worth the Streisand Effect damage.