How can a program be in violation of DMCA? Is a knife in violation of the criminal justice system because some people use it to kill and therefore no one can use it anywhere, ever? How ridiculous.
I mean, guns are banned in many countries using precisely the same reasoning. And I might totally be wrong about this but I heard that in the UK you need to be over 18 to buy even just kitchen knives.
There's a "Challenge 25" (formerly "Think 21!" IIRC) policy which covers these kinds of situations - although it is just a voluntary agreement from the major retailers.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sale-of-knives-vo...
> The maximum penalty for an adult carrying a knife is 4 years in prison and an unlimited fine. You’ll get a prison sentence if you’re convicted of carrying a knife more than once.
This blows my mind a little bit. I have a Swiss Army knife (among a ton of other things) in a waistbag that I carry most places I go. It proved very useful a few times, but other than "in case I need it" I don't have a particular reason I carry it. It seems really dystopian to me that in the UK, I could get 4 years in prison for that.
You couldn't.
That sentence is the maximum possible available for a particular type of offence.
https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/magistrates-co...
You'd need to combine location (possession at school, or in prison, or at a place where there is serious public disorder) or effect caused (causes serious alarm or distress), and also intent (crime based on hostility to religion, race, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity of the victim), or the blade would need to be a "highly dangerous weapon" (ie, not a swiss army knife).
Carrying a swiss army knife, and not having a good reason to do so, would be culpability D and harm 2, and so the sentence at mags would be a band C fine (about 1 week of your pay) or a medium level community order.
Unless I'm mistaken it looks to me like that law was written almost specifically so that Swiss Army knives in particular are considered an exception to the rule.
Also people who claim the same logic applies to kitchen knife and guns are mentally still living in the wild west of the 1800s.
Wikipedia indicates that a few countries (e.g. Laos) ban all private citizens from owning guns. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nati...
https://ag.hawaii.gov/cpja/files/2018/05/Firearm-Registratio...
And, of course, the infamous case of Napster [2]; while the vast majority of user behavior was obviously piracy, the tool/network itself was content-neutral, and could also be used for public domain content, or works published with the permission of the copyright holder.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS
[1] https://www.stoel.com/legal-insights/article/the-anti-circum...
def _decrypt_signature(self, s, video_id, player_url, age_gate=False):
"""Turn the encrypted s field into a working signature"""
if player_url is None:
raise ExtractorError('Cannot decrypt signature without player_url')
> is a technology primarily designed or produced for the purpose of, and marketed for, circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to copyrighted sound recordings on YouTube
.. and some claims referencing a 'youtube to mp3' site ruled illegal by a German court.
Not defending this, 'effective technological measures' are a horribly broadly-scoped hole, but there is decryption at play here.
The DMCA contains provisions that criminalize circumvention tools. The plaintiff only has to prove that a tool is mainly designed to aid in copyright infringement and/or that's the most common use. It's a super super bad law, but has unfortunately been used quite successfully over the past 20 years by the likes of the RIAA and MPAA and others.
> Is a knife in violation of the criminal justice system because some people use it to kill and therefore no one can use it anywhere, ever?
Many jurisdictions in the US consider carrying a hidden knife beyond a certain length as illegal carry of a concealed weapon.
Some knives (switchblades and gravity knives especially) are illegal in most places. I think the UK is even stricter.
I think it's usually about carrying them in public outside your house. Likely not as illegal to have them at home.
Gravity knives are scary in that the police have occasionally argued that certain common pocketknives (e.g. Leatherman) can be used as a gravity knife and arrest people (usually minorities of the wrong color). I once was going on a road trip across multiple states and had to research the laws of each state because I was carrying a Leatherman.
Many many other tools are deemed iheirently illegal. Guns, explosives, motorcycles over certain CC, encryption software, etc.
There are plenty of legitimate uses for youtube-dl. There is even fair use in the US. How can i make fair use, eg. remix or a commentary if i can't access the videos outside of youtube.
What is a bowling ball made for? What are bows and arrows made for?