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Which country would that be for the curious?
Re:How journalists use youtube-dl
by renewiltord on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:55PM
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What even is the relevance of this? So host a youtube-dl repo and reject DMCA requests then. Github, as it so happens, is American so it has to listen to America.
Relevance is "Having said that, can we please stop pretending like any of us weren’t using this to infringe copyright?"
I'm not pretending if I'm not violating, even if I'm downloading the copyrighted videos.
Re:How journalists use youtube-dl
by renewiltord on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:58PM
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Well obviously it doesn’t apply to you then. I feel like this is really easy to understand.
Re:How journalists use youtube-dl
by sudosysgen on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:27PM
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The word "any" has a specific meaning. Most people in the world aren't American and most countries at least from my experience allow private copying.
> most countries at least from my experience allow private copying
Most countries in the west allow it in the American sense. Only a very limited few countries allow it in the sense of Spain and Switzerland.
Re:How journalists use youtube-dl
by sudosysgen on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @01:30PM
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Hmm, where do you get that from? All of Eastern Europe pretty much, Scandinavia, France, Canada, Spain and Switzerland, at the very least, allow you to copy copyrighted content you legally have access to legally.
It's not a "limited few". I think most of the Eastern Europe allows downloading copyrighted content for personal use.
Re:How journalists use youtube-dl
by renewiltord on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:43PM
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I genuinely can’t believe you’ve decided to do this. I’m ashamed to have even participated in this. I’m outtie.
So how was I infringing copyright by downloading something from a public website where copyright holder left the content publicly accessible to anyone?
I'll give you that it may or may not be against ToS of the distribution service, but that's all. But it's not a distribution service causing the ruckus around youtube-dl, but the copyright holder, so that's kinda beside the point.