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RIAA trying to take down youtube-dl, time to fight back
daqq:
Ah, RIAA and similar organisations world wide... the scummiest of scum. Our local equivalent ( SOZA ) is pretty much an extortion racket. They demanded that the village where a few kids performed folk music pay up. Oh, and there's this delight:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/and-the-bullshit-legal-concept-award-goes-to-private-copying-levy!-congrats!/
Electro Fan:
--- Quote from: ataradov on October 27, 2020, 12:44:16 am ---How exactly do you "boycott the RIAA"? They provide no useful service to the absolute majority of the population. Hard to boycott something you don't use in a first place.
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Maybe play less vinyl records. (just kidding)
https://ledgernote.com/columns/mixing-mastering/riaa-curve/
nuclearcat:
Long live China.
https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader
I hope authors will just relocate there and 100k+ stars repository will give more reasons to sign-up and use gitee.
If you can't fight meaningfully RIAA, you can fight github.
International code repositories like github should be hosted and operated in countries with more reasonable laws.
P.S. I wonder if youtube-dl code is in their fancy-pancy Arctic vault and if they will mess up with it and remove it from there too.
tom66:
I pay ~£5 a month for unlimited music via a Spotify family plan. I can't argue with that pricing.
If the RIAA make a bit of money off me, it isn't much. I certainly haven't bought a CD or download album in a decade, or more.
tszaboo:
--- Quote from: tom66 on October 27, 2020, 09:04:02 am ---I pay ~£5 a month for unlimited music via a Spotify family plan. I can't argue with that pricing.
If the RIAA make a bit of money off me, it isn't much. I certainly haven't bought a CD or download album in a decade, or more.
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Companies like RIAA make mayority of their money from other sources. For example in a few European countries, they charge extra money for selling blank CDs (this was relevant like 10 years ago), empty USB flash drives, playing music on the radio, playing music in a shop, TV shows playing music and so on. Probably they get money for online steaming nowadays as well. They have significant B2B sources, and they are backed by governments with making laws that support them. I dont know what sources RIAA has exactly, but you cannot make a dent on it as a customer. Even if you manage to, they are just going to make other sources, like they start charging for your internet or other bullshit like that.
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