Reading the ruling on the supposedly "illegal" hosting of #youtubedl's website by @ubernauten, I was shaking my head for a good half an hour. I can't think of a better way the court could have made it so painfully obvious that they have absolutely no clue of what is actually going on.
The idea that such a tool might be illegal in on itself is bonkers. But I can't begin to comprehend the court acks that this site hosts only a GitHub link, yet still says it offers a download.
Honestly I'm pretty scared by the possible precedent such rulings can establish. It contains so many dangerous theories, such as the "rolling cipher" being an adequate technical means to prevent someone from fetching a publicly accessible file from a web server.
There's really nothing stopping you from applying this argument to every web scraper that concatenates two strings to build a URL...
@lschuermann As a browserdev, I'm scared. From a technology perspective it makes the lines awfully fuzzy as to what counts as circumvention vs normal web surfing...
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