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There’s no word to describe David Duke & Charles Murray without including xenophobes and bigots, because David Duke & Charles Murray are xenophobes and bigots.


There is no word to describe Jack Daniel's, and Laphroaig without including all other alcoholic drinks because Jack Daniel's, and Laphroaig are alcoholic drinks.


Of course there can be words to describe subsets of larger groups.

They’re also people; is there no word to describe them without including all people?


I never saw the repo, but to play devil's advocate it's possible that there's a unit test or something that downloads copyrighted material. That's what got youtube-dl taken down.


Doubt, there would be no reason for it to be copyrighted material, it would just be a torrent test


Couldn't the same thing have been said for the problematic youtube-dl test case?


The issue with the youtube-dl case was that certain copyrighted video pages did have a different structure, so they needed to test they could parse that page correctly.

There's no technical difference between a torrent containing ArchLinux.iso and TheBeatlesDiscography.zip however.


Not exactly. They had a test that saves a file from YouTube that was "protected" with some tech a lawyer might quality as DRM. YouTube only uses that thing for copyrighted materials.

Torrents don't have anything like that. You don't have to deal with anything copyrighted to test any related stuff, be it client, tracker, or web server.


Those directly downloaded copyrighted youtube videos. It would instead be just a torrent tracker connection check, no reason to even transfer a file, since the tracker just matches user with user and doesn't touch any files.


You clearly didn’t read the DMCA


I'm just saying that if a unit test existed, that's likely not what would cause the DMCA. seems that the reason is that it's preconfigured to share copyrighted content, so like I said, not the unit tests.


I do it all the time, google’s hours are often wrong, especially during covid.


To clarify: You're saying you do this more often than you order takeout? Especially during Covid? Because I explicitly said I believe it happens, just that it's a minority of calls.


Yeah, I almost never order over the phone. I go in person to look at the menu.


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If something is exclusive to a platform that's free to use, who cares? It's not like xbox vs playstation where you have to shell out a few hundred dollars to play an exclusive title.


Yeah but you knew that's how it worked when you bought the phone. If you didn't like the app store model you could have bought an android right?


yep, if this were reproducible, we wouldn't be reading about it in a blog.


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