Re:Vanced has been discontinued
by andy_ppp on Sunday March 13, 2022 @07:21PM
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I find it so irritating that Google essentially exists as a giant scraping system and they have the legal ability to persecute anyone taking content hosted on their platforms. Hypocrisy should be a legal defence in my opinion, i.e. if you take public content and repurpose it for your own needs you shouldn’t be allowed to sue for the same reason.
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Re:Vanced has been discontinued
by hyperhopper on Sunday March 13, 2022 @09:45PM
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This is just about YouTube. What part of YouTube is scraping?
So you’re saying it’s fine to be a hypocrite as long as the corporate structure absolves you of direct liability? As the sibling also points out, YouTube was directly founded on illegal content.
Re:Vanced has been discontinued
by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday March 13, 2022 @09:56PM
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Not exactly "scraping", but YT became popular largely through hosting pirated content, which is close.