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And I hope that Microsoft does. This would be a case where the veritable army of lawyers they have could do much good -- and the RIAA would back down almost immediately, they are good at bullying small players but Microsoft?


Microsoft is a member of the RIAA, so that would be an odd lawsuit: https://www.riaa.com/about-riaa/riaa-members/


Yeah, well, let's hope some time next week the case gets escalated within Microsoft to the RIAA contact person who can make the phone call "My man, the fuck?", with much more eloquent words of course.


Wasn’t all that long ago that Microsoft was making their own YouTube client, with downloads on mobile before Google officially released such a feature...


If github under ms can't stand up they are cowards of little account that everyone ought to move away from.


Perhaps, but Microsoft "loves" open-source now, remember?





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