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0 pointsAntiImperialist5y ago0 comments

I hope nobody actually believes this had anything to do with what it is made out to be in public (i.e. DMCA violation).

Google owns a LOT of videos on YouTube. The fact that people are able to easily get them out and put it somewhere else threatens them. So, they used their friends to cook up this lawsuit.

Unfortunately for them, this upset a lot of GitHub users and Microsoft didn't want to help Google while taking a hit themselves... so they found a way around it.

Corporations use their legal prowess to advance their bottom line all the time... and many a times, how it's framed in public is very different from what is actually going on.

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postingpals5y ago

There's no evidence that youtube-dl actually hurts youtube, you could just as easily say it makes people want to watch more youtube. There's also no evidence of any of the other things you said.

What I think this comes down to is the music industry is coordinating attacks all over the internet (they do this on twitch too recently), in the hopes they'll get some money out of it. Not much more to it than that.

AntiImperialistOP5y ago

There's no evidence that youtube-dl actually hurts youtube

What do you mean there's no evidence? There's no evidence it doesn't hurt them either.

you could just as easily say it makes people want to watch more youtube

Not if videos are ripped and uploaded on Facebook, which has been a problem for them for past few years.

There's also no evidence of any of the other things you said.

There's no evidence against it either.

in the hopes they'll get some money out of it

From a guy who maintains an open source tool? Those guys sure have a lot of money.

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