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YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, youtube-dl has been uselessly slow for me for over a year. Long since switched to yt-dlp.
You have to build it from source to avoid the 60kbps limit. There hasn't been a release since Dec 2021 and there have been some updates since then that implement the 'puzzle' to get the right value of the url parameter. It's worth noting that YouTube is trialling a new player and a lot of applications (invidious, new pipe, etc) are experiencing some issues in the last couple of weeks.
It's funny how a trillion-dollar company is playing cat-and-mouse with a few free software projects, and losing most of the time.
Re: YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban
#93Downloading videos now from youtube is illegal!? What’s next, you can’t save this webpage too!?
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would too. But i am saying if we are okay with gun manufacturers enabling death and murder, then by all means ytdl can and should stay up.
> gun manufacturers enabling death and murder, then by all means ytdl can and should stay up. I assume you're referring to arms makers selling weapons that are obviously not for hunting game to the civilian market, rather than overall, because (such as it is) countries generally need defence-forces, and those forces do need arms.
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#95It's laughable how symbolic and ultimately meaningless this is. GitHub has already proven themselves to be a good actor in this particular fight, so not only is the repo online, but we also have http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ The Uberspace provider is appealing the decision as well. Even with the site down, this looks incredibly positive from where I sit. Rightsholders and litigators get stuffed, we always win…
The site is online, but the download link ( https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl ) is borked: Due to a ruling of the Hamburg Regional Court, access to this website is blocked.
They can resolve that by not using absolute URLs maybe
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Doesn’t matter, saying you can’t download this publicly available video is like saying you can’t copy the text of this article, both are inane to think of.
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#97Re: YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I used to have a competitor who would email PayPal every couple of weeks to tell them our web site had CP on it just so PayPal would instantly shut off our payment gateway while they investigated Isn’t this sort of behaviour criminal? (I mean the competitor submitting a fake child pornography report, not whatever PayPal did to respond to it.) And if not, surely it ought to be.
Illegal? Probably, but I'm not a lawyer. I imagine the words "unfair competition" might be present somewhere on the legal paperwork. And if it's illegal but not criminal, you have to sue the competitor yourself, which is expensive and time-consuming. PayPal probably should have some kind of hold on your account saying "don't shut off the account until we've investigated" but that might itself be abusable (see Faceboo…
> Illegal? Probably, but I'm not a lawyer. I imagine the words "unfair competition" might be present somewhere on the legal paperwork
I was thinking more along the lines of “child pornography is a crime, and making a knowingly false report of a crime is a crime”.
I know it is a crime (in many jurisdictions) to make a knowingly false report of a crime to law enforcement; but PayPal aren’t law enforcement. I don’t think that should matter though - if it isn’t already a crime to make a knowingly false report of a crime to a business, then it should be
Re: YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban
#99How are people supposed to produce videos that include other Youtube clips without a tool like this?
Wait few months and you will have youtube “studio premium” feature so you can edit these videos there, mockery.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have to build it from source to avoid the 60kbps limit. There hasn't been a release since Dec 2021 and there have been some updates since then that implement the 'puzzle' to get the right value of the url parameter. It's worth noting that YouTube is trialling a new player and a lot of applications (invidious, new pipe, etc) are experiencing some issues in the last couple of weeks.
It's funny how a trillion-dollar company is playing cat-and-mouse with a few free software projects, and losing most of the time.
I have a feeling Google/Alphabet/YouTube aren't investing a lot of money into this, because they know their opponents have almost infinite resource, of free time and dedication.
Besides how would you like to work in the YouTube "DRM" team, where every few weeks you'd show up to work and the news is "well, they cracked it again, your last few months' of work is useless.".