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by mooreed 2001 days ago
What is the fate of `dl-youtube` with respect to this legislation??

I don't see any discussion in the thread - and find that the recent dust up over this type of DRM gray area use is more than correlated with this type of new legislation.

After the obligatory IANAL [1]: the fate of `dl-youtube` would be tied to your ability to construe `dl-youtube` as a digital transmission service based on §2319C.a.2.

To me seems like the the risky clauses of §2319C.a.2 are : `primary purpose` and `publicly performing`; where primary purpose is tough because their is author intent, and then the proportions of real-world usage, and `publicly performing` is actually a pointer not to common usage of the phrase, but to definitions set forth later in the document.

Read the actual law [PDF]: https://www.tillis.senate.gov/services/files/A30B0C08-FB97-4...)

[1] - I Am Not A Lawyer

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It's youtube-dl, and it is not a for-profit project/platform, so it should be fine.