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YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
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Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#152Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#153> 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!
It could download instructions and coordinating communication for drug manufacturing, money laundering, and terrorism! Add them to pædo porn and you have the Four Horsemen of the Infopocalypse! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#154You 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?.....
As another comment pointed[0], there is a mirror on gitee: https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#155The only way to fight DMCA abuse is through a lawsuit. Hopefully they setup a legal fund, because I would certainly donate.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It is messed up in practice, yeah. The counter to that is supposed to be that if you submit totally bogus claims you can be prosecuted for an actual crime, but as far as I know that never happens, at least for the big players.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#157> 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…
It's kind of amazing that computing in general, and the internet in particular, is as open and free as it is (contrast with the closed end-to-end "appliance" model of gaming consoles, or to some extent iOS). Cory Doctorow has been ringing alarm bells for over a decade about both technical and legal efforts to end general purpose computation itself, or at least to make it more the exception than the norm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Com...
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#158Note 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…
I think you are misunderstanding the legal argument. The DMCA Section 1201 specifically prohibits (among other things) technology that "is marketed ... for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title." The example in the README is evidence of this.
The argument is that youtube-dl is primarily used for breaking DRM not just that it could be used for doing so.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#159How can a program be in violation of DMCA? Is a knife in violation of the criminal justice system because some people use it to kill and therefore no one can use it anywhere, ever? How ridiculous.
In many jurisdictions knives of certain length or design are illegal. To posess to manufacture. In short to exist.
Many many other tools are deemed iheirently illegal. Guns, explosives, motorcycles over certain CC, encryption software, etc.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#160I am not buying this. Does this mean bittorrent client can be taken down as well? Who is drawing the line here?
Copyright lobby has been pushing the line tighter every year, every decade.