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Google game plan: 1. Push people to stop using ad blockers via client side tech so they can harvest and profile our data. 2. Push out a browser with a trusted
by baz00 3y ago
Google game plan:
1. Push people to stop using ad blockers via client side tech so they can harvest and profile our data.
2. Push out a browser with a trusted computing model around it that prevents ad blockers from being used and allows tracking to take place.
My game plan:
1. Steal the content with yt-dlp and NewPipe and give them the middle finger.
- pdimitar 3y agoIt's not even stealing. You are archiving it for your own personal use without an intent of ever distributing it. There are a number of valid reasons: heading to offline zone (no internet), having a metered connection so repeatedly streaming it is not viable, traveling to more authoritarian country, etc. I wish them luck defeating that argument in court.
- baz00 3y agoI don't care if I am or aren't stealing. They face no consequences for blatant GDPR and privacy violations. Why should I take the moral high ground if there isn't one?
- charcircuit 3y ago>You are archiving it for your own personal use That is not the usual definition of archiving. That is just piracy.
- pdimitar 3y agoSo what does personal archiving mean? Storing it and never consuming it? Kind of a non-sequitur from you here.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- dragonwriter 3y ago> So what does personal archiving mean? Insofar as it maps to anything that has special status in copyright law distinct from making a copyright-violating unauthorized copy, it means making a copy of a computer program (not any other kind of work, such as an audiovisual recording) of which you own a physical copy to safeguard against the risk of destruction, media failure, etc., of the original copy. ("Personal archiving" is also commonly used to refer to making backup copies of one's own works and documentation that one owns that is not creative work subject to copyright, but that is less relevant here.)
- greenyoda 3y agoHow is that different from recording a TV show with your VCR (and fast-forwarding over the ads), which is completely legal?
- charcircuit 3y ago>How is that different from recording a TV show with your VCR That is considered time shifting which is not what downloading a YouTube video is.
- greenyoda 3y agoIt's not just time shifting - as far as I know, there's no law that requires me to erase the tape after watching it once. After I've recorded the tape, I can keep it forever and watch it as many times as I want, even years after the show has gone off the air. It becomes an archived copy.
- gnuj3 3y agoDoes YT own the content? Its not exactly the same as movies, music or TV shows. He is downloading a video made by another user and uploaded to a publicly accessible website. Account is not even required to watch YT unless its +18 content. So what is Google going to argue here that user X stole users Y content and they are just good middle man samaritan?
- charcircuit 3y ago>Does YT own the content? No, they don't. >He is downloading a video made by another user Without a license from that user to make a copy of their video.
- krageon 3y agoThere is a copy of the video on your device every time you watch it.
- gnuj3 3y agoYeah, if that other user copyrighted the video.
- charcircuit 3y agoWorks are automatically copyrighted when they are created