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>> “[T]he average user must recognize that YouTube content, unlike media content on other websites, cannot be downloaded with a simple right-click and must be a
by wackget 3y ago
>> “[T]he average user must recognize that YouTube content, unlike media content on other websites, cannot be downloaded with a simple right-click and must be aware that this is achieved using technology on YouTube and that youtube-dl ‘overrides’ this protection. It is therefore to be assumed that the average user acts in bad faith,” the Hamburg Court wrote.
This argument seems ass-backwards. Why is it not YouTube which acts in bad faith by not providing the means for users to download videos in the first place?
- digging 3y agoBecause there is no such thing as selling a product in bad faith under capitalism. Except the acts explicitly named as illegal by existing laws. Those are obviously bad faith acts, which is why we made them illegal at the beginning of time. But if an act isn't illegal, and if you believe you'll profit from it, then it is by definition a good-faith act.