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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Nov-2020 16:56:23 EST lnxw48a1

#Conservancy's Bradley Kuhn makes a proposal in light of new onslaught by #DRM / #TUR (Technological Usage Restrictions) companies https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/nov/13/widevine-dmca-takedown/ [sfconcervancy org]

In this case, besides the #RIAA's baseless claim against YouTubeDL, #Google filed a claim against widevine-l3-decryptor https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-09-Google.md
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1. A Modest Proposal In The New Age of DMCA Takedown Aggression
  
  from Software Freedom Conservancy
  
  Just two weeks ago, my colleague Denver posted a criticism of Microsoft's GitHub for its capitulation to the RIAA takedown notice — which alleged, with specious evidence, that youtube-dl violated 17 USC § 1201. Frankly, this is the kind of behavior we'd expect from the RIAA — an organization controlled in recent decades by two dudes who seem to have helped write § 1201. No one is surprised when the RIAA attacks FOSS projects.
2. github/dmca
  
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  Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent u...
1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Nov-2020 17:03:15 EST lnxw48a1
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  By the way, I haven't been paying attention to such things for some time, so it's only been a couple of months since I even heard of #Widevine, and only today did I learn that this is a #Google product.
  
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