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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 23 days ago
In its submission to the EU’s Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List consultation, the group calls yt-dlp “a major problem for the music industry” and names four of its maintainers by their GitHub handles.
Ok, so add YouTube to the list.
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Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world 24 days ago
That’s just politicians caving to their financial sponsors. The American entertainment industry tried and failed to make the same case against VCRs in the 1970s, and audio cassette recorders in the 1960s. Downloading by itself isn’t “piracy”.
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 24 days ago
It would have made an interesting ST: TNG episode where the Federation orders the Enterprise to attack a planet where the National Potato Council claims there are pirates writing replicator software to distribute free food. Meanwhile, the B plot is Data struggling to manage his subscriptions to holodeck sims.
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ilinamorato@lemmy.world 23 days ago
Tricky to make that work in the (moneyless) Federation. Maybe the Enterprise gives a Whateverian ship asylum against the Ferengi just inside Federation borders, and then the Nagus (Wallace Shawn’s Nagus, of course, I can’t imagine that Rom would do such a thing) demands that they extradite the Whateverians to face prosecution for theft. An investigation ensues, and it turns out that they didn’t actually take anything physical, they just pirated a replicator pattern for the Whateva root, the root of an extinct plant which the people of Whatever III desperately need and are running out of. So now Picard has to figure out how to not cause an interplanetary patent incident and still make sure that the Whateverians get what they need.
The B-plot is pretty solid, though. That can basically stay as-is.
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HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 days ago
Bypassing ads is already technically piracy as the concept of piracy is the idea you are stealing potential revenue.
So YT-DLP would be piracy aswell since it denies them revenue by allowing you to download the media.
Just wait till they start sueing people for each YouTube clip they download like they did with mp3s.
However, If you incorporate… feel free to pirate everything, unless youre Chinese…
LaggyKar@programming.dev 24 days ago
Bypassing ads is already technically piracy as the concept of piracy is the idea you are stealing potential revenue.
No, piracy is about distributing unauthorized copies of copyrighted works. Revenue has nothing to do with it.
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HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 days ago
Thats what it used to mean for physical shit. For digital media is purely just denying revenue. Also yarrrrr
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kalpol@lemmy.ca 24 days ago
An association has to always look like they are doing something for their members. that’s all.
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zane@infosec.pub 24 days ago
OK. Is ffmpeg piracy or are they gonna continue to use it and not fund it?
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kiamwhatador1@lemmy.world 25 days ago
This is the equivalent of calling right-clicking on a picture piracy. Utterly insane.
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flameleaf@lemmy.world 24 days ago
There are scripts on some sites that attempt to block right-click saving, you know.
Next up: uBlock Origin features get called piracy
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ilinamorato@lemmy.world 23 days ago
Fyi, if you didn’t know: Shift + Right Click in Firefox always brings up the context menu, even if JavaScript tries to block it.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 25 days ago
of course they are crying about piracy again.
the music industry cries about piracy every time their sales slump.
Couldnt possibly be 90% of music is copy and paste slop.
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BrownSugarBits@lemmy.world 25 days ago
I don’t think these assholes understand that its a VERY useful tool for archiving the internet, which helps keep powerful people accountable. We must fight to keep this tool so that journalists and activists can keep speaking truth to power.
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Peacepath@lemmy.world 24 days ago
They are the powerful people, and they know why they don’t want to be kept accountable.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world 25 days ago
These assholes understand that perfectly. They represent rich and powerful people who don’t like being held accountable.
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JigglySackles@lemmy.world 25 days ago
Man fuck them. A garden hose is a tool, just because I can choke my asshole neighbor to death with it doesn’t make it a garrote.
bcgm3@lemmy.world 23 days ago
This sounds like one of those Internet comments that eventually winds up getting entered as evidence
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JigglySackles@lemmy.world 23 days ago
It’s ok, I already told the FBI agent watching me that it was a joke.