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I used to make mixtapes by recording music from the radio onto a cassette tape. I guess that would've been illegal, too?
by spike021 9y ago
I used to make mixtapes by recording music from the radio onto a cassette tape.
I guess that would've been illegal, too?
- skizm 9y agoThere was a specific exception made for this exact scenario (which does not apply to digital signals). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act#Exemption_from_infringement_actions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act#Exemp...
- spike021 9y agoIs this a case of that act needing to be updated to be more relevant to modern technology?
- tjoff 9y agoIn Sweden I'm pretty sure that exception is regardless of the source. Problem became when CDs etc. started shipping with easily cirumventable DRM. Because you are allowed to rip the CD to disk for backup purposes and for playing on your mp3-player and even share with your close family. We even pay a special tax on storage media to compensate artists for the right to do this. But as soon as the media contains DRM it becomes illegal, because circumventing DRM is illegal. Nevermind that the action you are trying to do is legal and with the tax you are even paying for it - but you can't legally do it. Same would apply to youtube. All they would have to do is encrypt the stream with a ROT13 equivalent with a static key, call it DRM and bam - now it is illegal to use youtube-dl.
- ramphastidae 9y agoNo, because that's for limited personal use. Selling the tape or playing it in public would be illegal, I suppose.
- spike021 9y agoBut using youtube-dl or (in this case) youtube-mp3 would be for precisely the same purpose. Unless the assumption with this shut down is that any results of using the service would always be used for selling or playing in public.