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YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban

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This is why Apple and Google need to hold less power.

No, people need to stop letting Apple and Google have so much power; such silly victim mentality! There's plenty of software and means to host your own video platforms.

You can't expect every human being to be enough of an expert in all topics to make informed choices on their own for all their interactions with corporations. That's why we have tons of saftey regulations governing the products you can sell. Similarly, it is much more reasonable to resrict a few megacorporations than it is to expect everyone to understand why the so-called "trusted" computing is bad for them.

Re: YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban

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> There's plenty of software and means to host your own video platforms. There's plenty of ways people can start their own countries and currencies too.

Ok I'm curious; how can a person start their own country and currency? Video hosting is as easy as hosting Piwigo, GNU mediagoblin, Lychee, Zenphoto, or tossing something together in PHP. All that is free and open-source.

> Ok I'm curious; how can a person start their own country and currency?

Traditionally, by violent means.

Re: YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban

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> While Uberspace didn't host the open source software, it was held responsible for the website linking to the software hosted on developer platform GitHub. Is Google, Bing, and DDG next?

>Is Google, Bing, and DDG next? You already can send a DMCA takedown for the links

DMCA takedown notices are for taking down content you own. The music industry doesn't own youtube-dl.

Re: YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban

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Its basically the VCR recording uSA Supreme Court case all over again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive... .

Yeah but for some reason in the 90s American Judges decided to throw that whole "justice for everyone" thing out the window and now explicitly empower ONLY certain giant rightsholders to have any rights. I'm waiting for a judge to accept an argument that web browsers should be illegal because they allow you to look at infringing content.

> I'm waiting for a judge to accept an argument that web browsers should be illegal because they allow you to look at infringing content.

You wouldn't circumvent web integrity checks, would you?

Re: YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban

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We did that at AOL with regards to fighting spam, when I was the Sr. Internet Mail Adminstrator in the mid-90s. We would put in weeks and months of work to come up with a new method of fighting spam that would actually work [0], and over the span of a weekend after launch, the spammers would already have worked around it. [0] As opposed to the random crackpot ideas that every damn stupid AOL VP came up with that star…

> [0] As opposed to the random crackpot ideas that every damn stupid AOL VP came up with that started with "Why don't you just ...". I hope you used https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt as your resignation letter.

We had a similar document that we had developed over time which I believe pre-dated this one. Ours may even have been the inspiration upon which this one was based.

For me, by that time AOL had become a sufficiently toxic place that we came to a mutual agreement that it was time for me to leave.

If it hadn't been for that, I would never have gotten a chance to work at Collective Technologies, where we had more O'Reilly authors on staff than any other company in the world!

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