YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban
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#2It'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!
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#3As noted in the article, the project still has a page on github:
http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/
I've moved on to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp anyways.
But this is still an infuriating move. youtube-dl wasn't doing anything infringing on its site, was it?
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#5Uberspace deserves a good amount of praise for this, I can't imagine what incentive they have for fighting this battle.
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#6The RIAA can get fucked
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#7Somewhat relatedly: I've been using Uberspace for years now to host some personal stuff (e.g. my Nextcloud instance). It's really cheap (you can start for as low as 5€/month), and I don't know any other shared hoster that allows so much flexibility in what you run on your account. The docs are also superb. I can only recommend it.
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#8> While Uberspace didn't host the open source software, it was held responsible for the website linking to the software hosted on developer platform GitHub.
Is Google, Bing, and DDG next?
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#9this paves the way to make archiving illegal, is that what germany wants?
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#10> Speaking with TorrentFreak, Uberspace owner Jonas Pasche says that his hands are tied. Failure to comply with the order would either result in a massive fine, or worse, a prison sentence.
Prison? Presumably for contempt?