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Re:YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git by Iv on Sunday October 25, 2020 @11:20AM (#24886924)
Reform copyright. It was based on the assumption that taxing copy production is a reasonnable way to fund creation. It was an incredibly good system in the days of the press where making copies requires heavy capital investment.

It is hilariously wrong nowadays when everybody own a copy-making machine in each pocket.

Re:YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git by nybble41 on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:46AM (#24893417)
> It was an incredibly good system in the days of the press where making copies requires heavy capital investment.

It was never a good system, but it was certainly less obviously broken and destructive to society then than it is today.