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		stuu99 on March 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues You can go ahead but the history of the last 200 years suggest reformism doesn't work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/... Corporations got their way every time over the last 200 years. There has never been a time where copyright was pared back in the public interest.

pbhjpbhj on March 7, 2022 | [–]

In the UK we got format shifting rights for a year or so, that was a minor, temporary paring back!

brigandish on March 8, 2022 | [–]

Until the alternative given is not dump capitalism then reformism is the only option I'll be backing, as the least worst of a sorry bunch.

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