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>How is this even allowed? Is there any law on this type of stuff? Well bob, it's called DRM and DMCA. Don't want it? Stop buying products that use it. Richar
by danjoc 9y ago
>How is this even allowed? Is there any law on this type of stuff?
Well bob, it's called DRM and DMCA.
Don't want it? Stop buying products that use it. Richard Stallman was right. Again.
- Mindwipe 9y agoNo it isn't. YouTube is just blocking on the basis of User Agent and JavaScript fingerprinting.
- mrmr1993 9y agoThe DMCA could definitely be relevant. It mandates[0] that "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title." IANAL, but one could argue that YouTube (or large parts of it) are protected under copyright law, and that the user agent check is "a technological measure that effectively controls access" to it/them. "(A)to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and (B)a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work."[1] [0]: (a)(1)(A) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 [1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?def_id=17-USC-423854455-1095614619&term_occur=1 https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?def_id=17...