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		Bqhatevwr on Nov 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube-dl's repository has been restored They literally had a test case in the repo for circumventing copy protection on youtube. I'm somewhat baffled they managed to get the repo reinstated given that's very much a violation of the DMCA.

dodobirdlord on Nov 17, 2020 [–]

The argument is that it doesn’t do anything that a web browser doesn’t do already, and there’s established precedent that it’s not “circumventing copyright” if it requires no secret knowledge.

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