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Re:YouTube-Dl Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censor... by JohnFen on Thursday April 13, 2023 @02:25PM (#35559872)
> The concept that you simply cannot watch a show or movie if you haven't paid for it is genuinely foreign to many people

I'm certainly not arguing otherwise. However, I am arguing that things like YouTube-DL have legal and legitimate uses. Assuming that even its primary use is for piracy is a pretty huge assumption.

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Re:YouTube-Dl Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censor... by Zetice on Thursday April 13, 2023 @04:15PM (#35561476)
Yeah fair, I guess I got a bit lost in the IP argument; I believe in IP and I think people act entitled to IP that isn't theirs without thinking about what a world would look like if that were generally how people behaved.

BUT yeah the issue is how people use the tool, not the tool itself, and this is for sure a huge overreach by the RIAA.

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