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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by mulmen on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:10PM (#24874217)
From the RIAA perspective it seems clear this tool was created to download copywritten material. You can disagree with the law or think the tool has other valid uses but the intent of the tool author seems clear here.

The author of the tool should have chosen a better example in the tests to at least maintain plausible deniability.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by mola on Saturday October 24, 2020 @02:49AM (#24877443)
People use it for many purposes. Researches downloading public domain material etc.

Does any camera manufacturer showing a camera filming a live concert in some promotional video needs to worry?

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by mulmen on Saturday October 24, 2020 @03:27AM (#24877577)
Yes, obviously there are legitimate uses. That’s not the point. The point is the actual codebase of YouTube-dl features copyright infringement as a test case. RIAA is using this to make the case that the tool is designed to aid in copyright infringement.

That seems like a reasonable argument given the evidence and the DMCA. I’m not defending the DMCA or RIAA here.

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