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I found it strange that they constantly used "developers". I guess this is the marketing department word to use instead of "users"?
I found it strange that they constantly used "developers". I guess this is the marketing department word to use instead of "users"?
Good job GitHub and Microsoft!
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I have become convinced that the RIAA lawyers emerge from their crypts every few years, generating a slew of copystrikes to justify their retainer fee.
This software makes it easy for people to download copyrighted movies and the RIAA attorneys (at least some) are acting in good faith to prevent people from breaking copyright law and causing their client damages. Can someone argue against me please? (genuinely contribute to discussion by arguing against my own biases, call me a moron instead of downvoting)
Now there's no doubt that piracy violates copyright law. We can debate whether or not that's a good thing, whether the laws in question are just, etc., until the end of time. But it's not a foregone conclusion that piracy has any negative economic impact on copyright holders.
Say what you will about Github and Microsoft, this was a classy move. A million dollars is a million dollars. "Putting your money where your mouth is". "Nonetheless, developers who want to push back against unwarranted takedowns may face the risk of taking on personal liability and legal defense costs. To help them, GitHub will establish and donate $1M to a developer defense fund to help protect open source developer…
The forks still seem to be borked, hopefully they will get resolved. My fork[0] is still showing DMCA notice and shows that it's a fork of some repo I'm sure I never forked, I forked the original ytdl-org. [0] https://github.com/ozburo/youtube-dl
It seems like EFF fought for youtube-dl and GitHub used their letter as legal firepower to bring the repo back online. If GitHub were fighting for the developer they would have funded the attorney, right? Though from their blog post it does look like they are taking steps to fund defense in the future as well as other steps to improve the situation. Reading EFFs claim is pretty interesting, they state that saving a c…
Whenever you watch a video you are downloading it. youtube-dl merely gives you control over where that stream goes, whether it's to a hard disk or to a media player like the regular Youtube.
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This line of questioning on Startup News is quite amusing to me, I must say. How many of us can really pretend to make society a better place?
Not everyone here is directly involved in the startup culture and yes, technology and disruption can get shady. But "at least I'm not a lawyer" is a low, low bar to clear.
A lot of people wouldn't be able to get any justice at all if it weren't for lawyers. Lawyers work for the ACLU and EFF too you know.
This really is great to see, but it’s clear from their careful wording that the google takedown of the recent widevine l3 repository won’t be reversed: > And our reinstatement, based on new information that showed the project was not circumventing a technical protection measure (TPM) Since it is clearly circumventing a “TPM.”
I didnt think I could have much more goodwill toward the EFF, yet here we are. Donations link: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/30for30--D