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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by sib301 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:20PM (#29927036)
This is like suing VCR manufacturers because some people used them to record music videos off of MTV.
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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by ok_dad on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:25PM (#29927101)
> suing VCR manufacturers

Might I direct you to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive....

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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by nostrademons on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:13PM (#29928350)
Which ruled in favor of Sony, that making personal copies of complete TV shows which you have access to is fair use, and that makers of such devices cannot be held liable as long as there are substantial non-infringing uses.

I suspect that GP didn't pick that example randomly, because youtube-dl is a pretty close analog of a BetaMax.

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