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Re: Hosting the original youtube-dl sources on salsa?




On 2020, ഒക്‌ടോബർ 30 1:46:21 PM IST, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote:
>We could presumably consult a lawyer, but the RIAA would need to be even
>more moronic than I think they are to have a go at us, given that nobody
>in the wider world has ever heard of us, and we're going to have no
>trouble raising funds to defend a case, and we're very clearly not
>making a cent out of publishing this stuff, so they're going to have fun
>trying to calculate the damages. Also, see the recent Gnome case[1] for
>how well these things can go when people who don't know the first thing
>about Free Software start trying to throw lawyers at the situation.
>
>Overall even if the law managed to be sufficiently deranged to result in
>us losing a case against the RIAA, the light that would shed on the
>situation seems likely to do more harm to them, and more good to us than
>not getting involved in the first place.
>
>The alternative world where we stop doing good things because of people
>like the RIAA seems much worse.

Very well articulated. I agree.
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