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Rochus
4,228karma·3,235submissions·November 19, 2018
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I don't think youtube-dl violates any of the points in the referenced paragraph. EDIT: also note that it states "effective technological measures" ("Umgehung wirksamer technischer …
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Nothing like the Github or Gitlab services I know of, but there are a couple of hosters where you can rent a (virtual) server.
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My statement didn't imply you should use Github, but that there is no reason to feel more save with Gitlab.
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Gitlab is apparently a US based company. Unlikely that they would be more courages than Github.
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Absolutely right; RIAA was only successful with this questionable action thanks to support from Github.
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People should move their youbube-dl repositories to servers hosted in Switzerland, where people are not criminalized when downloading content and making copies for personal use (even when copy protect…
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You need Icestorm or Symbiflow in any case; VerilogCreater doesn't include them.
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It's also interesting to note that education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions to contribute to environment protection; having one fewer child is by far mo…
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If you prefer a Verilog IDE instead of Icestudio's drawing approach, have a look at https://github.com/rochus-keller/verilogcreator/ …
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For metered content, "non-members get a select number of free stories in their member preview, which replenishes on the first of each month." (see https://help.medium.com/hc&…
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> That is not correct That's an official publication of the company behind medium. Maybe they had some bugs in the past or the people who complained or the author just made mistakes. Try to …
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The author decides whether the article is accessible for free or not. If the author is not in the partner program, even all of his articles are accessible for free. Read https://help.medium…
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> you are putting them behind a paywall Read this: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018677974 Quote: If you are a writer enrolled in the Partner Progr…
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It seems that I am not the only one who sees a significant contradiction between reality and the conclusions from the experiment.
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No. Tests are an internal technical detail and not part of the product offering to users. Apart from that, a download from youtube in itself does not violate copyright laws.
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One rarely sees mice in IT. And neither Maslow had mice in mind when he developed his theory of motivation. EDIT: Okay, apparently I need to clarify the statement. Humans have so much more possibiliti…
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Do you mean the Pylint result? Was this confirmed elsewhere? It's unlikely that an interpreter is faster than a tracing JIT in geomean over a relevant set of benchmarks.
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See https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/Modula-Oberon-June... for the philosophy…
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Right.
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> Does the language do anything that Dart doesn't? No. But Oberon demonstrates how one can implement real systems with a very little language; and with an extremely small footprint compared to…
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The referenced video has a CC-BY license. Downloading and sharing is therefore legal according to copyright law. Anyway, in most countries downloading per se is not illegal when the content wasn'…
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If this standard form contract is relevant at all (depending on country and other factors), it has nothing to do with copyright. As far as copyright is concerned, see e.g. https://en.wikipe…
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Downloading copyrighted music per se is not illegal. This is not the same as intentionally circumventing a digital rights protection mechanism. In some countries (but not in all) it is illegal to down…
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> While we'd prefer that Microsoft would simply [...] reject their DMCA requests Yes, they should and could have done that, all the more so, since justification for the request is on thin ic…
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> It's literally designed to download content from sites that don't allow downloads That's not per se illegal. First there are countries where it is not illegal to download copyright…
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Do you have evidence for this statement?
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> The test is whether the tool is designed and/or offered for the purpose of circumventing copyright It is not more designed and/or offered for this purpose than any other communication t…
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The presumption that anyone in some test has accessed material on youtube that might not be allowed to be downloaded in the USA does not justify the removal of the project's repositories, as it w…
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Remain objective (if your personality allows it). What the Americans do is their business, even if it is in the gray area also there. But the cease and desists to (ex-)developers in Germany are simply…