YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Post by m-p-3 » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 2:57 AM UTC

arvindamirtaa wrote: post #729

polote wrote: post #676

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> The fact that copyrighted works were included in the readme shows it was intended for that use How could that be true? if the YouTube link in the test case was a video of farmer on his truck would that show it is intended for that use? No. YouTube dl is made to download any YouTube videos it has not been made to download specifically Taylor Swift music videos, it just has just been picked as a test case as any othe…

While I agree with the point, a strong case can be made that the music video in the README and the test case were a poor choice. A silly home video, preferably uploaded by the maintainers themselves would've just given RIAA's claim no teeth.

Post by stjohnswarts » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 3:07 AM UTC

black_puppydog wrote: post #295

Your weekly reminder that 1. You should not have your development process on a centralized platform, at least not if you're doing anything that smells of copyright issues 2. If you do host on a centralized platform, have regular, decentralized backups of code and issue tracking. 3. Also, avoid US-centric hosting for this kind of thing. But really, refer to 1.

Post by sjy » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 3:15 AM UTC

nickjj wrote: post #483

kelnos wrote: post #378

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It makes perfect sense to the people who design these twisted legal machinations. A tool like OBS is designed for generic desktop recordings, while youtube-dl is designed specifically to enable the copying of copyrighted works. Or at least that's what the RIAA will say, and unfortunately a judge will likely be very sympathetic to that claim.

Yep. I wonder where this will go defensively in court if it gets there. I guess what the RIAA is really saying is that murder is legal depending on what was used to kill someone. A hunting knife could be used to kill someone but it could also be used to slice a pizza pie. A pizza cutter was designed to slice pizza but it could also kill someone without too much effort. If it's not ok for youtube-dl to create an mp3 o…

Post by stjohnswarts » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 3:17 AM UTC

andy_ppp wrote: post #486

I find this amazing, essentially Google has been scraping every piece of content they can get their hands on, when a few individuals decide to get data, that wasn’t even created by YouTube, they get take down notices. The more I think about it hypocrisy should be a defence against these things.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 3:18 AM UTC