Thank you, I'd forgotten about that.

A brilliant way to let off some steam, while making it impossible to build any sort of business around circumvention (and hence funneling enough resources into circumvention to make it viable and widespread), because there's a ~50% chance every 3 years that your business is made illegal.

IMO the rightsholder of a a creative work publishing the work with digital restrictions should make it ineligible for copyright protection, as the requisite equity that justifies copyright protection has not been met - the published work won't eventually become part of the public domain. This should also include any restrictive transformation of a creative work (eg compiling source->binary) unless the original creative work has been published or escrowed.

Also, copyright should be limited to a maximum of 10-20 years. Of course these things will never happen politically, so pirate away. The real problems highlighted by the youtube-dl saga are the general reliance on centralized Github and the fact that most users' access to computing is mediated by centrally-controlled apps.