MoltenMonsterMedia scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice
Linking to piracy sites whose content is all blatantly stolen from artists does seem violating to me.
what piracy sites is gallery-dl linking to?
I do not want to promote them here, but if you read the linked github thread you will see the names of what extractors were deleted.
Through the DCMA lens, does a tool having the ability to download from example.com = linking to example.com?
In this case the files you could view on github literally had links directly to copyrighted works. It was not just that it was compatible with pirate sites.
Where? I looked at a copy from March 16, and I only saw placeholders like 12345 and 12345/67890abcde in the files mentioned in the issue
Look in the test vectors and you will see ones that are not for generic ids.
That seems like an argument to go after the actual alleged illegally hosted materials through the proper DMCA takedown request.
Both should be done. Often the actual illegally hosted materials are on servers not friendly with takedown requests or will get immediately reloaded by the pirates. By going after the links it can cut off the ability for people to find the illegally hosted materials.
Is this like how in France, DNS resolvers are legally required to block certain websites? That's right, if you run "unbound" with default options in France you're a felon.