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The end result provided by both tools is what's illegal in both cases. Recording copyrighted material and murder. In my analogy the RIAA is saying a specialize
by nickjj 6y ago
The end result provided by both tools is what's illegal in both cases. Recording copyrighted material and murder.
In my analogy the RIAA is saying a specialized tool for recording copyrighted material (youtube-dl) is illegal but since they didn't file a DMCA request for non-specialized tools that record copyrighted material (OBS and the like) then they must be ok with allowing copyrighted recordings from those tools.
Thus the RIAA thinks specialized tools for murder (hunting knife) are illegal but generic tools not designed for murder (pizza cutter) are fine to kill someone.
- nilsocket 6y agoActually I also thought of something similar, but the analogy is wrong. A knife cannot make any decision based on the subject on which it's being treated. i.e., a knife itself cannot do anything, while I use it to kill someone. A software can stop a user from downloading copyrighted content. Intact, YouTube itself gives video info, simply by requesting it's info page. But in-order to download music videos, one needs cryptographic hashes, which need to computed. One needs to write specifically software to deal with this case.