Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by fauigerzigerk on Saturday October 24, 2020 @03:54AM
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Youtube benefits from being everyone's go-to site for finding video content. Keeping that monopoly of mindshare is worth far more to them than any short sighted profit maximisation.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by bryanrasmussen on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:40AM
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as recent legal action shows companies benefit from being monopolies up until the point that they monopolize too much.
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by tripzilch on Saturday October 24, 2020 @05:11AM
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Yeah that's not some kind of general rule. This is because the US legal system in particular lets this happen. And in fact, the US legal system works so badly that it often still benefits companies long after they've monopolized too much, causing all sorts of damage to consumers and other companies that actually did nothing wrong.