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Re:YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git by schwartzworld on Sunday October 25, 2020 @06:27AM (#24885234)
GitHub is not a safe place to develop software that has an association with piracy, nor would any centralized service.
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Re:YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git by PoignardAzur on Sunday October 25, 2020 @07:52AM (#24885573)
Yeah, there's a difference between Microsoft saying "We love open source now" and Microsoft saying "fuck the police, IP law needs to be rebuilt from the ground up anyway".

The idea that Microsoft should lose some of the goodwill it got doing the first for not doing the second is really naive.

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Re:YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git by ClumsyPilot on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:36AM (#24886147)
No the line appears to be: "we love opensource, unless it messes with some BigCorps businessmodel, in which case a letter of nebulous legal fudge is enough to delete your repo without due process"
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Re:YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git by oaiey on Sunday October 25, 2020 @02:39PM (#24888711)
To the point. If it is illegal by the hosting country, good luck. And that can be whatever legalese imaginable.

But luckily git is decentralized.

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Re:YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git by type0 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @08:50AM (#24885918)
What piracy are talking about?
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Re:YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git by schwartzworld on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:16AM (#24919708)
In the case of YouTube-dl they had test cases supporting downloads of DRM'd material. Specifically "Shake it Off" by taylor swift.
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