Many (thousands, if not tens of thousands) YouTube videos are being deleted right now, crazy censorship taking place. If tools like those get banned then it gets harder to keep copies of videos before they will be banned from YouTube.
YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
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Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#102You 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?.....
You can use the download zip button instead of cloning.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#103I'm not sure with the RIAA hopes to accomplish here.
I suspect this will be fixed in a day, and just be hosted elsewhere.
And also, isn't this like when the studios sued the makers of VCRs?
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Another abuse of DMCA on the frontpage earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24867212
Indian startup taking down dissent, whistle blowers and leaks using take down requests to youtube and social media.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#105Note 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…
The fact that copyrighted works were included in the readme shows it was intended for that use, and the RIAA complaint will likely stand up to any legal scrutiny. Just because it can be used for legit purposes too won't matter in the slightest. I mean, Napster could have been used for legal means as well, and it got destroyed in court.
The only chance tools like this have legally is when infringement is an "unintended side effect."
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#106They should have counter claimed this nonsense instead of taking down the repo. RIAA is an abusive troll.
This is part of the DMCA process. Github takes it down until they get a counter-claim from the repo owner, don't think they really have much of a choice in it, legally.
Yeah, this process is messed up. It gives preference to abusers, instead of making them prove things to take something down.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#107> this seems outrageous the same way DMCA'ing a Bittorrent client would be Why stop there? I can use my browser to illegally download content, so I guess we better issue a DMCA takedown that too. But who even needs a browser? Let's issue a takedown for the GNU Project while we're at it because I could use wget to do the same thing. In fact, I could write my own program to illegally download content, so we better just…
cURL could be used to download pornography. Think of the children!
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#108I am not buying this.
Does this mean bittorrent client can be taken down as well?
Who is drawing the line here?
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Same for any kind of information exchange, like speech or the written word. Common sense says their argument doesn't hold water at all. Should courts decide in favor of the takedown that'd just go to show how broken our legal system is. Let's hope not.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#110I'm surprised they haven't gone after browsers. They would surely have asked Google to display certain messages when a user visits known piracy sites
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