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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by jchw on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:02PM (#24874765)
JFYI i was wrong. There were no such examples in the README or “marketing material,” there was URLs and metadata in a few unit tests.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by ehsankia on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:52PM (#24875649)
Not that big of a difference, since I see unit tests as examples, still sloppy either ways.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by MAGZine on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:13PM (#24876077)
It's not "marketing," though, which is a key difference.

Programmers put weird things in unit tests all the time. Maybe the contributor was making a joke.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by ehsankia on Saturday October 24, 2020 @06:52AM (#24878347)
It doesn't have to be marketing. You're showing by example how your app can be used, and one of your examples is to download copyrighted content.
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