Court Rejects Appeal of Youtube-dl Hosting Provider 'Uberspace' (torrentfreak.com)

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Hosting provider Uberspace has suffered another setback in a German court. The court of appeal ruled against youtube-dl's former hosting provider, holding it liable for alleged violations of YouTube's copyright protection measures. The owner of the company is currently considering further appeal options. Meanwhile, youtube-dl remains available on GitHub.

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[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Even then, are shops selling kitchen knives (mind you, despite the name, youtube-dl can be used to download videos from various sources) held liable for people doing murders with them?

EDIT: On a sidenote, the Hamburg courts are renowned to know jack shit about technology and often produce rulings against any common sense.

[-] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The lawsuit is not about downloading, but about enabling circumventing protections.

By your analogy, it's not about the shops selling kitchen knives, but hosting a side door to a protected weapons/knifes shop.

(I hate analogies. In general. But wtf is that analogy now that we included more context?)

[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, youtube-dl supports a plethora of sites. And you can download from almost all of them without breaking any laws. Like kitchen knives have 100s of uses that are totally fine and don't hurt anyone. I stand by my analogy.