This is the equivalent of calling right-clicking on a picture piracy. Utterly insane.
There are scripts on some sites that attempt to block right-click saving, you know.
Next up: uBlock Origin filters get called piracy
Fyi, if you didn’t know: Shift + Right Click in Firefox always brings up the context menu, even if JavaScript tries to block it.
They already have been
of course they are crying about piracy again.
the music industry cries about piracy every time their sales slump.
Couldnt possibly be 90% of music is copy and paste slop. not to mention the rise of actual AI slop “music”
I don’t think these assholes understand that its a VERY useful tool for archiving the internet, which helps keep powerful people accountable. We must fight to keep this tool so that journalists and activists can keep speaking truth to power.
These assholes understand that perfectly. They represent rich and powerful people who don’t like being held accountable, and who treasure the ability to keep selling you shit without you actually owning it.
They are the powerful people, and they know why they don’t want to be kept accountable.
It would have made an interesting ST: TNG episode where the Federation orders the Enterprise to attack a planet where the National Potato Council claims there are pirates writing replicator software to distribute free food. Meanwhile, the B plot is Data struggling to manage his subscriptions to holodeck sims.
Tricky to make that work in the (moneyless) Federation. Maybe the Enterprise gives a Whateverian ship asylum against the Ferengi just inside Federation borders, and then the Nagus (Wallace Shawn’s Nagus, of course, I can’t imagine that Rom would do such a thing) demands that they extradite the Whateverians to face prosecution for theft. An investigation ensues, and it turns out that they didn’t actually take anything physical, they just pirated a replicator pattern for the Whateva root, the root of an extinct plant which the people of Whatever III desperately need and are running out of. So now Picard has to figure out how to not cause an interplanetary patent incident and still make sure that the Whateverians get what they need.
The B-plot is pretty solid, though. That can basically stay as-is.
Man fuck them. A garden hose is a tool, just because I can choke my asshole neighbor to death with it doesn’t make it a garrote.
This sounds like one of those Internet comments that eventually winds up getting entered as evidence
It’s ok, I already told the FBI agent watching me that it was a joke.
Bypassing ads is already technically piracy as the concept of piracy is the idea you are stealing potential revenue.
So YT-DLP would be piracy aswell since it denies them revenue by allowing you to download the media.
Just wait till they start sueing people for each YouTube clip they download like they did with mp3s.
However, If you incorporate… feel free to pirate everything, unless youre Chinese…
Bypassing ads is already technically piracy as the concept of piracy is the idea you are stealing potential revenue.
No, piracy is about distributing unauthorized copies of copyrighted works. Revenue has nothing to do with it.
Thats what it used to mean for physical shit. For digital media is purely just denying revenue. Also yarrrrr
No, piracy is about “Yaaaarrrr!”
There aren’t enough bullets going through their corrupt faces, apparently.
Ridiculous horseshit, fuck these clowns.
In its submission to the EU’s Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List consultation, the group calls yt-dlp “a major problem for the music industry” and names four of its maintainers by their GitHub handles.
Ok, so add YouTube to the list.
OK. Is ffmpeg piracy or are they gonna continue to use it and not fund it?
That’s just politicians caving to their financial sponsors. The American entertainment industry tried and failed to make the same case against VCRs in the 1970s, and audio cassette recorders in the 1960s. Downloading by itself isn’t “piracy”.
An association has to always look like they are doing something for their members. that’s all.
They can suck the skin off my dick
There’s an EU piracy watchlist? Did anyone submit Facebook to it?
Sounds like a spam this agency project.
…Hmmmm… It should. If you read the linked article it claims the group lists X, discord, telegram and vimeo as sites that encourage infringement, so there’s that.
They describe the tool as an application that retrieves content by parsing web page data and interacting with platform playback endpoints, with GitHub serving as the primary delivery method for its source code, pre-compiled binaries, and installation instructions.
Omg, web browsers will be next!
People have actually gone to prison for using the “view source” button in the web browser before. The RIAA mafia is deeply unserious.
You joke but killing general purpose browsers to sandbox everyone into curated apps would give most middle managing MBAs a priapism.
more than that, they want it filtered through their ai agent
Nice use of the word priapism.
Github after that
Git never needed GitHub and Microsoft is terrified people will remember that.
You joke, but even the browsers capable of parsing the nightmare JS calls, are restricted in resolution on free platforms. Not to mention any niche browser.
