Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by sl1ck731 on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:02PM
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Not having read any legal literature around or really understanding the DMCA, how can they not make a distinction between things with legitimate uses and not? How do torrent clients stand up to that?
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by mulmen on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:02AM
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Torrent clients don’t name themselves “Game of Torrents” and have test cases for downloading TV shows.
The problem YouTube-dl ran into is they literally named themselves after a prominent streaming site that is copyright holder friendly and also literally tested, in their codebase, the ability to do a thing that arguably violates the DMCA.
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by robertlagrant on Saturday October 24, 2020 @12:44PM
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Not sure the "literally" things are anything to do with this. Only the "arguably violates DMCA" is relevant, and we already knew it was arguable.
Once the infringing use has been established, it doesn't matter that there is also the potential for legitimate fair use. If it did, then Napster, Kazaa, and Limewire would still be around because they all had the potential for legitimate fair use.