YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship
Going one step further, the court also concluded that as a host, Uberspace can be held liable for youtube-dls activity. The hosting provider received a takedown notice for the website in the past but continued to host it. According to Uberspace, the software wasnt clearly illegal but the court ruled that the company should have known better.
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