tumbling4986@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoYT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPIitsfoss.comexternal-linkmessage-square121linkfedilinkarrow-up1600arrow-down14
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minus-squareHertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoBypassing 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…
minus-squareLaggyKar@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month 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.
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoNo, piracy is about “Yaaaarrrr!”
minus-squareHertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThats what it used to mean for physical shit. For digital media is purely just denying revenue. Also yarrrrr
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…
No, piracy is about distributing unauthorized copies of copyrighted works. Revenue has nothing to do with it.
No, piracy is about “Yaaaarrrr!”
Thats what it used to mean for physical shit. For digital media is purely just denying revenue. Also yarrrrr