Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio • Hacker News Board

Re: Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio

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Post by int_19h » Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 9:43 PM UTC

slowhadoken wrote: post #171

StanislavPetrov wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Does it matter if it’s fair use if the copyright law can’t be enforced on a person by person basis? You mean, "hasn't yet been enforced on a person by person basis". If history has proven anything, it is that the government and their corporate masters will do everything they can to expand their powers by passing new laws and enacting new regulations so that they can extract every dollar they can.

If history has proven anything it's that any lock that can be made can be broken.

The purpose of all these schemes is not to make copyright 100% enforceable, but to make it costly and/or risky enough that the majority simply won't bother.

Re: Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio

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Post by snvzz » Sun, Aug 20, 2023, 2:14 AM UTC

kmeisthax wrote: post #105

indymike wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> youtube-dl is a copy protection circumvention tool Wait until they find out that Microsoft has been providing tools like COPY and XCOPY with their OS for decades...

COPY and XCOPY cannot copy a copy protected program. The Amiga's X-COPY, on the other hand...

Maraude it Professional.

Re: Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio

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Post by bensecure » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 10:38 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #129

It's important to keep a few things in mind: - When you recorded off the radio, you usually had someone talking over the beginning, end, or both (and this was by design, because the radio station knew that if you had a good copy you wouldn't listen to the radio anymore) - Your copy was a lot worse quality than what you could otherwise buy - You could at best distribute it to a few hundred or maybe even 1000 people if…

> - When you recorded off the radio, you usually had someone talking over the beginning, end, or both (and this was by design, because the radio station knew that if you had a good copy you wouldn't listen to the radio anymore)

If such adulteration was sufficient to prevent my listening to the recording, than I wouldn't listen to the radio in the first place. Radio is at least no better than my recording if it always contains such effects.

> With videos on YouTube you can:

> - Which you can easily redistribute to millions

Which platform might I use to perform this redistribution? And how am I to compete with the copy retrievable from the bands own youtube page?