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That would be amazing. Why support only Youtube though? It could be useful for many other sources/kinds of content! > Would this be vulnerable to a legal attac
by southerntofu 5y ago
That would be amazing. Why support only Youtube though? It could be useful for many other sources/kinds of content!
> Would this be vulnerable to a legal attack from Google?
Not really, no. Rehosting the video could be fragile legally, depending on the actual use-case (eg. education/accessibility exceptions to copyright). But a free-software gathering links to existing 3rd party content is just a standard web page, nothing challenging legally. RSS feed readers are not illegal. [0]
[0] The notable exception being if you're setting up a centralized for-profit service out of it like Google News is doing. In this specific case they're making profit from content created by 3rd parties, which is definitely a copyright infringement.