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There are so many valuable videos that I would not rely Youtube (and the uploaders) to maintain those videos permanently on their site. For instance interviews
by submeta 6y ago
There are so many valuable videos that I would not rely Youtube (and the uploaders) to maintain those videos permanently on their site. For instance interviews with Niklas Luhmann or Feynman or Steve Jobs or Karl Popper and many many more.
It is our right to have tools that could be used for different reasons. It is our right to be able to act not lawful. Just go after those citizens who break law, not those who COULD break law.
Just because a knife can kill someone it's not taken from the market. Or just because a pen and paper could be used to write a demagogic text we don't disallow these tools.
- toxik 6y agoI find the tool analogy very useful, because we _do_ regulate some tools like guns. I think what this supposed DMCA is best compared to is making cameras illegal because people take photos and record videos of copyrighted material. The key difference is in what the real world contains, versus the virtual world — the virtual world is so dominated by intellectual property that it is almost hard to argue that youtube-dl isn’t meant to copy IP by the fact that almost everything on Youtube is copyrighted. The desire for a library style free archive of important videos, I think, is just, but youtube-dl is not a that. I’m not sure what it is, it seems to me unquestionable that it should be legal, though.
- bondarchuk 6y ago> I think what this supposed DMCA is best compared to is making cameras illegal because people take photos and record videos of copyrighted material. Ah, just you wait. If ever the analog loophole becomes the dominant way to reproduce copyrighted works, it will be difficult to get a camera without a content-recognition and blocking system.
- wolco2 6y agoWhy did you remove the photoshop not allowing banking notes editing. Is this true?
- bondarchuk 6y agoJust thought it's maybe not as relevant, but yes it's true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
- wolco2 6y agoVery interesting. It mentions the concept was developed in 2004. I wonder how many versions are affected by this and when they started.
- rietta 6y agoOne of our business processes is to scan checks when customers pay and attach the image as part of the record in QuickBooks. We use a sheet of paper folder to redact the numbers of the bottom of the check. Our scanner refuses to color copy some client checks, namely from a govt agency and a startup. Thankfully we can still copy with grayscale. When this happens, we have to fully power off the scanner and boot it back up again. Best I can tell it's this pattern/hologram that triggers it. For the same reason, I had trouble making a digital copy of my daughter's birth certificate. Before I found the gray scale trick, I ended up taking a photo with our iPhone instead.
- corty 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
- st3fan 6y agoColor copiers and color printers check for the EURion constellation too. For decades, at least in Europe.
- gamblor956 6y agoGenerally, unless the purpose of the image was to disseminate an otherwise copyrighted work contained in the recording, fair use would apply. For example: the famous toddler dancing to Prince video. It recorded a Prince song while the toddler was dancing to it. The primary purpose of the video was to show the toddler dancing, so the recording (and dissemination of the Prince song) was deemed fair use. (There's a bit more to that analysis but that was the gist of it.)
- clusterfish 6y agoApple already has patents to block recording of concerts iirc
- ChrisLomont 6y agoCameras were the dominant way for nearly 100 years, and that didn’t happen.
- romanoderoma 6y agoIf that was true it would be hard to argue that photocameras on smartphones aren't meant to shoot porn or dick pics by the fact that, well, we know why. youtube-dl works on many other web sites, not only YouTube, and downloading YouTube videos, even if copyrighted, is not a crime per se in many parts of the World
- toxik 6y agoI think your view of what smartphone cameras are used for is pretty out of whack. Most people take photos of their food, abacus amd whatever they are up to. (I’m keeping abacus but it was supposed to say babies)
- romanoderoma 6y agoThe point is that if now abacus is the most photographed thing in the World, it doesn't mean cameras main purpose is to take pictures of abacus(es? I guess being a Latin word it has no plural) In the same way youtube-dl is a tool used to download videos from hundreds of website and there is nothing inherently illegal in it even if the majority of users used it to download illegal material from YouTube.
- mqus 6y ago> making cameras illegal because people take photos and record videos of copyrighted material. It's not like there are no better alternatives. Instead of making it illegal, just setup a fee and a distribution scheme. In Germany, we do pay some additional fee (0.5€?) on usb-sticks, printers and hard drives, etc, because those things could be used to copy copyrighted material. These fees go directly to associations that represent copyright holders, like GEMA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEMA_(German_organization) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEMA_(German_organization) ). This happens since forever. So there is already precedent for blanket-regulation of and compensation for possible use/misuse of copyrighted material. In fact, this is what some people proposed as a kind of reasonable alternative to the Upload filters of the EU Copyright directive ("Article 13" and so on) I'm noticing that this is not really a coherent argument, more of a braindump, sorry.
- 00__00 6y agoThis was not a copyright claim, the tools that were being hosted in one place (Github) allowed widespread infringement. The tool is not banned. Like cameras are not banned. It's a stupid comparison.