YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by feanaro on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:49AM (#24886239)

> Granted, the response to that didn't make much sense - the current law doesn't have to directly affect end users for us to make a reasonable prediction based on it that laws proposed in the future would attempt to do just that.

You're right. I assumed the OP was arguing that Article 13 itself somehow regulates ad blocking software, which is the only way I could interpret it so as to not be a non sequitur, but in doing so I made a non sequitur myself.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by ldarby on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:13AM (#24886420)

I never said Article 13 bans ad blocking. What I wrote was too difficult to parse and I should have realised that at the time and made it more clear. E.g.:

"It's not hard to predict they (EU and media corps) will want to make ad blocking illegal in future with a new law following on from Article 13." I could have said something more vague like "not hard to predict it given the direction the world is headed at the moment" to make the same point.

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