In my country it's not illegal to download copyrighted movies/music. It's just illegal to share them.
So how was I infringing copyright by downloading something from a public website where copyright holder left the content publicly accessible to anyone?
I'll give you that it may or may not be against ToS of the distribution service, but that's all. But it's not a distribution service causing the ruckus around youtube-dl, but the copyright holder, so that's kinda beside the point.
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What even is the relevance of this? So host a youtube-dl repo and reject DMCA requests then. Github, as it so happens, is American so it has to listen to America.
Hmm, where do you get that from? All of Eastern Europe pretty much, Scandinavia, France, Canada, Spain and Switzerland, at the very least, allow you to copy copyrighted content you legally have access to legally.
So how was I infringing copyright by downloading something from a public website where copyright holder left the content publicly accessible to anyone?
I'll give you that it may or may not be against ToS of the distribution service, but that's all. But it's not a distribution service causing the ruckus around youtube-dl, but the copyright holder, so that's kinda beside the point.