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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by sl1ck731 on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:02PM (#24876309)
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?
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by mulmen on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:02AM (#24877690)
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.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by robertlagrant on Saturday October 24, 2020 @12:44PM (#24880298)
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.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by mulmen on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:14PM (#24881661)
The "literally" parts help the RIAA make their case.
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