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The new narrative is that obviously you’re not permitted expect in very rare circumstances, so any tool used to aid actual fair use gets slammed with DMCA take-

• feanaro 6y ago
  Yes, and I'm very surprised at the number of people that are apparently falling for this narrative. It would've been unthinkable just a decade ago, it seems. It's good to see others recognise it for what it is. It needs to be strongly pushed back.
  • LordDragonfang 6y ago
    That's because even a decade ago (well, a decade and a half, factoring in recent memory), the internet was a fundamentally different, much more open place. Now probably 90% of traffic exists in increasingly siloed walled gardens, which all take measures to ensure their content (and more importantly, you) stay there. (Hell, a good portion of that traffic isn't even from some general-purpose browser, it's from an app.) And circumventing that is pretty much the letter of the (poorly worded) law when it comes to the DMCA. It's not really the people that have changed, it's the internet that has. (Sure, many parts of the internet are still open, but youtube isn't one of them.)