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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by pmoriarty on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:08PM (#24875346)
"Napster could have been used for legal means as well, and it got destroyed in court."

But Napster was a service run by an organization.

youtube-dl is neither a service nor an organization. It's just some source code floating around the internet, to which volunteers contribute to.

A very different situation.

If anything, it's Youtube itself that's like Napster, and it's telling that the RIAA has gone after youtube-dl rather than Google.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by michaelmrose on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:38PM (#24875896)
It's not even clear that youtube-dl vs watching in the browser is any different from watching on tv vs using your vcr to record which has long been legal.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by traviscj on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:51PM (#24876806)
In this case, it "steals" the ad revenue that the copyright tries to protect, no? Or am I thinking about this incorrectly?
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by tyzoid on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:56PM (#24876825)
This is an argument copyright owners tried to argue with VCR and later TiVo, as it lets them skip out on the ads.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by michaelmrose on Saturday October 24, 2020 @12:53AM (#24877047)
Nobody can steal their own attention
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by arvindamirtaa on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:58PM (#24876000)
RIAA definitely does go after Google. They file countless DMCA takedowns on videos that re-upload content from official accounts.

Unlike Napster, Google just complies and hence doesn't have much of a case against it like Napster did.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by mulmen on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:07AM (#24877704)
RIAA already went after YouTube. That’s why Google added the ability to scan for copywritten material. Google wanted YouTube to be a friendly place for people to view content. That meant playing ball with RIAA.
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