YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by saagarjha on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:53PM (#24874665)

The law isn't some computer program that you can trick if you try hard enough. If someone can reasonably tell that you just took a program and rejiggled it a bit to pretend it's something else, they are going to come after you regardless and likely be successful when they do so.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by Aeolun on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:44PM (#24875117)

So lets have someone outside the influence of the RIAA do so? Not everyone lives under their thumb.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by pmoriarty on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:55PM (#24875225)

"The law isn't some computer program that you can trick if you try hard enough."

I don't know what you're talking about. It happens all the time.

Miscarriages of justice are common. As just one of endless examples, read about how much of forensic science is a joke, yet it passes muster in the courts.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by tehjoker on Saturday October 24, 2020 @03:39AM (#24877607)

Those things happen because powerful people are involved either on the side of the state or a plaintiff or defendant with lots of money. As a weaker party, you can't make the system work for you so easily.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by saagarjha on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:17PM (#24875412)

Generally to do that you have to be willing to aggressively pursue your position and be somewhat ok with being unethical, which I doubt will be youtube-dl's position.

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