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A good example is all those Wikipedia and Stack Overflow content-suckers. Perfectly legal.

All this application is is a nice interface to "curl http://radio-stream.whatever/ > /dev/dsp". If this application is illegal, so is anything capable of speaking HTTP.



I was under the impression that SO "could" for instance copyright all user submitted content. In that case the republication of that content without the permission of the copyright holder would be illegal.


You own the copyright on everything you write. The site can only claim copyright if you transfer it to them during the comment submission process.


And many sites specifically state that you're signing over the copyright as part of posting.




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