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But it can also be sued for downloading uncopyrighted material. It's like submitting DCMA for Office Word because people can use it for creating pirate copies o
by neiman 6y ago
But it can also be sued for downloading uncopyrighted material. It's like submitting DCMA for Office Word because people can use it for creating pirate copies of Harry Potter.
- tertius 6y agoTo be fair, more like "Harry Potter Copier Word".
- wizzwizz4 6y agoTo be fair, more like Microsoft® Office® OneNote™; it has a camera feature and an automatic OCR feature and a “copy text from image” convenience feature.
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- CJefferson 6y agoAlso, using copying an entire Harry Potter book as the basic tutorial.
- wizzwizz4 6y agoWhich youtube-dl didn't do…?
- tertius 6y agoIf also connected to the db for all fiction ebooks on Amazon.
- aidenn0 6y agoIt's not because Word doesn't: 1. Advertise that it is intended to aid in copyright infringement 2. Include some tools to circumvent DRM used in harry potter e-books.
- neiman 6y agoI didn't notice that. Links?
- neiman 6y agoOh yeah, this paragraph: "For example, as shown on Exhibit A, the source code expressly suggests its use to copy and/or distribute the following copyrighted works owned by our member companies" That's quite unwise to be honest. But these examples should be removed, not the code itself.
- kelnos 6y agoThe test suite uses YT URLs to copyrighted works to ensure it can download properly and that the metadata is accurate. Not quite the same as using downloading a copyrighted work as an example in the README, but still a very poor choice.