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RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

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Re: RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

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Post by Quarrelsome »

xxffgg557 wrote: post #20
Quarrelsome wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happened to Truecrypt? Isn't that the one with the fundamental flaw that means everything it encrypted is trivial to unlock today? EDIT: this is a genuine question, I thought it had been unmaintained for ages and vulnerabilities had been found. My memory betrays me?

How about research it yourself before spreading false information about a really amazing tool masked as a question. Or do you have a competing tool? Let me guess. Someone will ask for an alternative and another will suggest..

Uh no. I'm literally just saying the things I know about Truecrypt. Its a very old and as far as I was aware its no longer maintained and not recommended for securing things. Am I wrong?

Re: RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

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Post by Quarrelsome »

gruez wrote: post #18
Quarrelsome wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happened to Truecrypt? Isn't that the one with the fundamental flaw that means everything it encrypted is trivial to unlock today? EDIT: this is a genuine question, I thought it had been unmaintained for ages and vulnerabilities had been found. My memory betrays me?

>Isn't that the one with the fundamental flaw that means everything it encrypted is trivial to unlock today? Has this been substantiated?

Sorry I thought it was canon. I remember seeing something suggesting it _years_ back. Truecrypt is unmaintained now, isn't it?

Re: RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

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Post by dtech »

Quarrelsome wrote: post #11
jjones2 wrote: post #9

Always host software outside of US or *eyes jurisdictions. Think Truecrypt.

What happened to Truecrypt? Isn't that the one with the fundamental flaw that means everything it encrypted is trivial to unlock today? EDIT: this is a genuine question, I thought it had been unmaintained for ages and vulnerabilities had been found. My memory betrays me?

It disappeared from the net suddenly and under very suspect circumstances. The general consensus it that it was forced off-line by some US agency.

Re: RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

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Post by ikeboy »

ffpip wrote: post #10
jimktrains2 wrote: post #4

> GitHub’s CEO suggested that YouTube-DL won’t be reinstated in its original form. But, the software may be able to return without the rolling cipher circumvention code and the examples of how to download copyrighted material. Which is frustrating. Isn't the information needed to do this provided by youtube themselves? This isn't some private key that wasn't supposed to be public; it's literally given out every time…

You can download mp4 files directly from Youtube. I've found a way to download videos right from the domain googlevideo.com . No 3rd party tools, any requested clarity. I thought I'll make a post to explain this easy method, then realized Google would take down that method within a week, so I'm keeping quiet.

You can download the audio and video files by taking the URLs from the network tab in chrome, and you can then merge those files together.

Just remove the range parameter in the URL.

Re: RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

danaris wrote: post #15
gruez wrote: post #6

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I also find it laughable to claim that a session token is a "rolling cipher". If the claim is to be taken at face value, it would ban any form of scraping, as most sites invariably use some sort of session token.

> it would ban any form of scraping ...which many entities would love to do. If it were illegal to extract data any way but through an official API, with a TOS and fees and everything, that would make a bunch of dying business models so much more viable.

And kill Google Search. Google can't afford for that precedent to exist.

Re: RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

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Post by radlad »

Quarrelsome wrote: post #21
xxffgg557 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about research it yourself before spreading false information about a really amazing tool masked as a question. Or do you have a competing tool? Let me guess. Someone will ask for an alternative and another will suggest..

Uh no. I'm literally just saying the things I know about Truecrypt. Its a very old and as far as I was aware its no longer maintained and not recommended for securing things. Am I wrong?

> Its a very old and as far as I was aware its no longer maintained and not recommended for securing things.

This doesn't mean it has a "fundamental flaw that means everything it encrypted is trivial to unlock today."

There has been no evidence to suggest that is true. An NCC Group audit found no significant flaws: https://opencryptoaudit.org/reports/TrueCrypt_Phase_II_NCC_O...

Re: RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

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Post by Koliakis »

Quarrelsome wrote: post #22
gruez wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Isn't that the one with the fundamental flaw that means everything it encrypted is trivial to unlock today? Has this been substantiated?

Sorry I thought it was canon. I remember seeing something suggesting it _years_ back. Truecrypt is unmaintained now, isn't it?

Truecrypt was mysteriously shutdown out of nowhere. Rumours abound that it was because of a national security letter or some other governmental interference. TC was never proven to be fundamentally insecure, but the original developers abandoned the project with the incident and the project was forked by others as VeraCrypt, which is now the recommended solution for local encryption (on Windows at least).

audit: http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/

final audit summary: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/04/02/truecryp...

Re: RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

lolbot wrote: post #17
ffpip wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can download mp4 files directly from Youtube. I've found a way to download videos right from the domain googlevideo.com . No 3rd party tools, any requested clarity. I thought I'll make a post to explain this easy method, then realized Google would take down that method within a week, so I'm keeping quiet.

>> You can download mp4 files directly from Youtube. You really can't. >> I've found a way to download videos right from the domain googlevideo.com I assure you, you really didn't.

I've found it too. It's really easy. Just look at the Network tab.

Here's a really simple site that can do it: https://en.savefrom.net/1-youtube-video-downloader-4/ There are tens of others.

Re: RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

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Post by ubercow13 »

lolbot wrote: post #17
ffpip wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can download mp4 files directly from Youtube. I've found a way to download videos right from the domain googlevideo.com . No 3rd party tools, any requested clarity. I thought I'll make a post to explain this easy method, then realized Google would take down that method within a week, so I'm keeping quiet.

>> You can download mp4 files directly from Youtube. You really can't. >> I've found a way to download videos right from the domain googlevideo.com I assure you, you really didn't.

Sure you can, youtube-dl even has the `-g` flag to give you the URL
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