• Godort@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    These ripping tools can be used to convert YouTube music videos into MP3s for example. This is seen as a major problem by the music industry, which has and is taking legal steps in response.

    You used to be able to record radio or TV broadcasts with zero consequence. The DMCA, from it’s inception through to it’s implementation has caused nothing but problems if you aren’t a studio executive

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      17 hours ago

      If they could have fined or arrested people for recording cassettes off the radio they would have.

      We have learned that a pretty significant number of the liberties that we enjoy only exist because it would be too much work to take them away.

      We are seeing that will facial recognition and free speech and public assembly now.