<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Andrew_nenakhov</author><text>Why stop with torrent clients? They should ban all browsers, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted materials!</text><parent_chain><item><author>molmalo</author><text>I was thinking the same thing:
The next step following this line of thinking would be trying to ban all torrent clients, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted material.&lt;p&gt;This is crazy.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>Note that RIAA is making this takedown because the software CAN be used to download copyrighted music and videos, and it uses examples in the ~~README~~(unit tests, see correction[1]) as an example of that:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We also note that the source code prominently includes as sample uses of the source code the downloading of copies of our members’ copyrighted sound recordings and music videos, as noted in Exhibit A hereto. For example, as shown on Exhibit A, the source code expressly suggests its use to copy and&amp;#x2F;or distribute the following copyrighted works owned by our member companies:&lt;p&gt;They could, of course, have asked for the code to have been changed. Instead, they attacked the project itself. IANAL, but this seems outrageous the same way DMCA&amp;#x27;ing a Bittorrent client would be. This doesn&amp;#x27;t circumvent DRM like Widevine. I don&amp;#x27;t understand what leg they have to stand on here.&lt;p&gt;This feels like DeCSS all over again.&lt;p&gt;P.S.: They also took down youtube-dlc, even though it&amp;#x27;s not listed.&lt;p&gt;[1]: It turns out I am wrong. It wasn&amp;#x27;t in the readme, but in the &lt;i&gt;test cases&lt;/i&gt;. See extractor&amp;#x2F;youtube.py. To me this seems even more tenuous, but IANAL.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dvtrn</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The next step following this line of thinking would be trying to ban all torrent clients, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted material&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Didn&amp;#x27;t the RIAA put up a considerable effort against torrenting in the early 2000&amp;#x27;s? I remember quite vividly them going after just about anyone who made music available, even if you owned your own songs and were simply uploading them to a web UI to listen to in the browser (Remember Muxtape?)</text><parent_chain><item><author>molmalo</author><text>I was thinking the same thing:
The next step following this line of thinking would be trying to ban all torrent clients, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted material.&lt;p&gt;This is crazy.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>Note that RIAA is making this takedown because the software CAN be used to download copyrighted music and videos, and it uses examples in the ~~README~~(unit tests, see correction[1]) as an example of that:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We also note that the source code prominently includes as sample uses of the source code the downloading of copies of our members’ copyrighted sound recordings and music videos, as noted in Exhibit A hereto. For example, as shown on Exhibit A, the source code expressly suggests its use to copy and&amp;#x2F;or distribute the following copyrighted works owned by our member companies:&lt;p&gt;They could, of course, have asked for the code to have been changed. Instead, they attacked the project itself. IANAL, but this seems outrageous the same way DMCA&amp;#x27;ing a Bittorrent client would be. This doesn&amp;#x27;t circumvent DRM like Widevine. I don&amp;#x27;t understand what leg they have to stand on here.&lt;p&gt;This feels like DeCSS all over again.&lt;p&gt;P.S.: They also took down youtube-dlc, even though it&amp;#x27;s not listed.&lt;p&gt;[1]: It turns out I am wrong. It wasn&amp;#x27;t in the readme, but in the &lt;i&gt;test cases&lt;/i&gt;. See extractor&amp;#x2F;youtube.py. To me this seems even more tenuous, but IANAL.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md</url></story>