Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by gamblor956 on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:04PM
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but Apple definitely understood that iTunes had value to people who wanted to make digital copies of media in ways that did not strictly fall under fair use guidelines.
Ripping CDs for personal archival copies had already been characterized as fair use by the courts by the time iTunes was first released. If it hadn't been, the industry players wouldn't have just "accused" Apple of promoting copyright violation, they would have done something about it. The music industry has always been very aggressive about protecting their IP rights.
It would have been very different if iTunes had the slogan "Rip, Mix, Burn, Share."
Ripping CDs for personal archival copies had already been characterized as fair use by the courts by the time iTunes was first released. If it hadn't been, the industry players wouldn't have just "accused" Apple of promoting copyright violation, they would have done something about it. The music industry has always been very aggressive about protecting their IP rights.
It would have been very different if iTunes had the slogan "Rip, Mix, Burn, Share."