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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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[-] cupcakezealot 54 points 1 month ago

by their logic, right clicking an image and clicking save is illegal.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

Give it a few more years and it will probably be over there. I don't know whether it's an ongoing thing or what since I haven't kept up with it, but there is/was(?) a case of some Springer Verlag trying to say that an ad blocker violates copyright law, going after Eyeo/Adblocker Plus.

[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

To be fair, Eyeo/ABP deserved everything they had coming at them. They not only blocked ads, but there was code found to replace Amazon affiliate links with an affiliate id from them. (German report here - look for the part about typoRules.js.)

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago
[-] Nawor3565 10 points 1 month ago

I mean, that was Getty Image's whole case against Google's "view image" button. And Getty won that legal battle, so clearly they have some legal ground to stand on, even though most people would think it's bullshit.

[-] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

What logic do you mean?

Images are typically not encrypted with protection measures [in transit].

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