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YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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Post by 29_29 »

viro wrote: post #50
jaspergilley wrote: post #33

You can download the most recent version of the YouTube-DL code from Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201018144703/https://github.co... Fuck the RIAA

ok so I might just be stupid but how does that link let me clone the repo?.....

click code, download zip

Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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Post by esalman »

dheera wrote: post #5

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl > Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown. (a) Are there mirrors? (b) Are there Github equivalents in e.g. Russia where the RIAA doesn't have jurisdiction or extradition power?

https://pypi.org/project/youtube_dl/

Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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Post by DoofusOfDeath »

cft wrote: post #24

This needs free legal assistance from EFF and needs to go to court if RIAA is actually ready to litigate this

> This needs free legal assistance from EFF

Legal assistance isn't free; it's just paid for by other donors: [0]

[0] https://supporters.eff.org/donate/30for30--S

Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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Post by ht85 »

molmalo wrote: post #37
jchw wrote: post #4

Note that RIAA is making this takedown because the software CAN be used to download copyrighted music and videos, and it uses examples in the ~~README~~(unit tests, see correction[1]) as an example of that: > We also note that the source code prominently includes as sample uses of the source code the downloading of copies of our members’ copyrighted sound recordings and music videos, as noted in Exhibit A hereto. For…

I was thinking the same thing: The next step following this line of thinking would be trying to ban all torrent clients, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted material. This is crazy.

Now that 4chan is behind bars, it's time to sue the Internet!

Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

viro wrote: post #50
jaspergilley wrote: post #33

You can download the most recent version of the YouTube-DL code from Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201018144703/https://github.co... Fuck the RIAA

ok so I might just be stupid but how does that link let me clone the repo?.....

https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.... is a ZIP containing the repo.

Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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Post by jchw »

paul7986 wrote: post #47
jchw wrote: post #4

Note that RIAA is making this takedown because the software CAN be used to download copyrighted music and videos, and it uses examples in the ~~README~~(unit tests, see correction[1]) as an example of that: > We also note that the source code prominently includes as sample uses of the source code the downloading of copies of our members’ copyrighted sound recordings and music videos, as noted in Exhibit A hereto. For…

Why in the world did they include copyright works in the README? That's contributory infringement!

Why? youtube-dl is a violation of YouTube's ToS most probably, but does using it to download a copyrighted video necessarily constitute copyright infringement? I have literally used youtube-dl to watch YouTube, in the past; it's handy to be able to use whatever media player you want, including ones that have better scrubbing.

Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

molmalo wrote: post #37
jchw wrote: post #4

Note that RIAA is making this takedown because the software CAN be used to download copyrighted music and videos, and it uses examples in the ~~README~~(unit tests, see correction[1]) as an example of that: > We also note that the source code prominently includes as sample uses of the source code the downloading of copies of our members’ copyrighted sound recordings and music videos, as noted in Exhibit A hereto. For…

I was thinking the same thing: The next step following this line of thinking would be trying to ban all torrent clients, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted material. This is crazy.

Why stop with torrent clients? They should ban all browsers, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted materials!
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