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I think youtube-dl/archiver tools present some ethical problems. If you're publishing something for commercial, do you have a right to one day revoke that item
by beebmam 8y ago
I think youtube-dl/archiver tools present some ethical problems.
If you're publishing something for commercial, do you have a right to one day revoke that item you've published? I think many would say that no, you don't have that right. Fair use and all that.
But if you're publishing your diary or some other personal items about your life, not for something commercial, then I think many would argue that yes, you should have that right. To have the right to make all data about you disappear.
I'm pretty sure RMS explored these ethics before in some of his writings.
Personally, I'm a user of youtube-dl and have written some tools based on cloud tech that helps me automate archival of all media I come across that I find valuable. But I'm not so sure it's completely ethical in all cases.
- exabrial 8y agoYou should assume anything you let leave your own device is permanent. Anything else is a pretty big pipe dream
- JackCh 8y agoDo I have the right to go into peoples homes and root through their archived correspondence to find and burn lengthy personal Christmas letters I once sent them? If instead of writing a letter I made a video and sent them a link, and they decided to keep the video around, that would be no different. They would have no moral right to republish that letter/video, but I would have no moral right to take their copy from them.
- BeetleB 8y agoIf I published my diary or something personal in a newspaper, I would not have that right. If you upload to youtube and make it public, then that's exactly what it is - public. You may have the right to pull it from Youtube one day, but that's the extent of it.