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Re:Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets by dotancohen on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:30PM (#25004311)
Microsoft has expensive lawyers on retainer, and would not challenge the takedown notice against youtube-dl.
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Re:Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets by x0 on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:44PM (#25004679)
Would Microsoft care about youtube-dl? Aside from their recent gesturing towards open source, I can't see a scenario in which they'd even say anything. Considering how often youtube-dl has to be updated and re-downloaded, they might even be happy to get that load off GitHub.
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Re:Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets by vkou on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:37PM (#25004345)
Those lawyers protect Microsoft from liabilities.

Their users are, in this case, a liability.

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