Re:Update: YouTube-dl reinstated thanks to EFF (2020)
by munk-a on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @05:26PM
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I think the hope is that getting a few high profile counters out there will have a chilling effect on the RIAA being so cavalier with their notices - but I do agree that if the counters would, in perpetuity, take hours of lawyers' time then I'm uncertain if RIAA or the counter notices will scale better.
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Re:Update: YouTube-dl reinstated thanks to EFF (2020)
by lmilcin on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @05:32PM
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Except that it keeps happening constantly and platform-owning companies just quietly "correct" the error and everything is fine.
It is not a fair process if it requires you to get public outrage.
Whenever I see a story of a kid which family succeeded to collect money for an expensive treatment thanks to public outcry, I always think about all those other kids who were not so fortunate to get public interested in them.
Should we be happy that we got one of a thousand saved or should we be thinking there is something fundamentally wrong?
Re:Update: YouTube-dl reinstated thanks to EFF (2020)
by mattnewton on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @06:24PM
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Why would this chill the RIAA? What were the consequences to their lawyers?