Comment on Grayjay: A new app that merges different video platforms into one

• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In this case, very much so. Freedom to distribute other people’s software after surreptitiously adding trackers is freedom to do harm. In much the same way as I like people not having the freedom to come smash my windows and then try to cut me with the glass.

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  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    look, I understand you’re all followers this “influencer” or whatever. But this is not a novelty feature. Newpipe has been allowing access to YouTube videos in a similar matter for a long, long time. And their app is truly free software, anyone’s able to view, edit and distribute the code.

    So if this dev is artificially telling everyone that the reason for them using a not open/libre license is to impede people putting trackers on top, that’s absurd.

    Specially taking into account that real a malicious actor won’t give a fuck about the license, take the code and put ads or whatever anyway.

    This license is only effectively restricting community forks

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    • Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Specially taking into account that real a malicious actor won’t give a fuck about the license, take the code and put ads or whatever anyway.

      They can sue his ass. New Pipe cant

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      • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        try suing someone in a country like Russia, China or any other where this things are super hard to enforce. At most, they can request Google to remove them from the PlayStore.

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  • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    this is the dumbest fucking analogy I’ve ever heard. yes, Linux is the equivalent of letting people break your windows and stab you with the broken glass. A tier brain rot take

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• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Didn’t watch the video?

  Individuals are free to do whatever, but you’re not allowed to redistribute with a bunch of shit tacked on.

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  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    that’s effectively taking away your freedoms. If there can’t exist community forks that can maintain the app if the original dev crease development or decide to add anti features, then you’re being restricted.

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you’re free to upload work you didn’t do, with malicious changes meant to make money, that you can promote above the original, you’re freedoms should be smacked.

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      • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        From when taking someone’s work, improving it and then selling became unacceptable?

        In physical world we did not expect IKEA to grow their own trees. In science world we do not expect mathematican to reinvent whole math every time doing something.

        People selling or giving away some software and expecting they still should have control over copies they sold are just doing harm. It’s 2023 and some still cannot accept the fact that digital copying exists. Get over it and make money on doing new work, not creating artifical licence to force numbers into being a scaresity.

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