Who needs Peertube when there's Youtube, some people asked yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24855183
YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
201–210 of 1001 posts
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#202You 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
You can only download a snapshot from that page. Here's a tarball with the entire git repo in case anyone's interested: https://transfer.sh/Hj9dD/youtube-dl-git.tar.gz (52MiB)
Here's Debian's mirror btw, somewhat out of date and using the one-commit-per-upstream-release development model (in the upstream branch), so lacking a lot of history: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/youtube-dl
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#203How is this not perjury again? They need to be punished for this harshly.
How is this perjury? No one's under oath.
DMCA takedowns are filed under penalty of perjury:
"Under penalty of perjury, we submit that the RIAA is authorized to act on behalf of its member companies on matters involving the infringement of their sound recordings, audiovisual works and images, including enforcing their copyrights and common law rights on the Internet."
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#204I'm very scared by this. youtube-dl needs somewhat frequent updates as Google moves the youtube codebase around. I'm worried that the RIAA's next move, now that it's starting to get inconvenient to get youtube-dl, will be to make Youtube change in some way to make existing copies of youtube-dl no longer work. youtube-dl has been my primary way of getting videos since I learned about it. If the RIAA manages to kill it…
I'm actually curious, when you run "youtube-dl --update" where does it update from? What domain?
Trying it now results in:
ERROR: can't find the current version. Please try again later.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#205This is like issuing a DMCA takedown on Microsoft Word because it's possible to use it as a means to defame someone.
I think a better analogy is to forbid an OCR software because they COULD be used to reproduce a book.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact that copyrighted works were included in the readme shows it was intended for that use, and the RIAA complaint will likely stand up to any legal scrutiny. Just because it can be used for legit purposes too won't matter in the slightest. I mean, Napster could have been used for legal means as well, and it got destroyed in court. The only chance tools like this have legally is when infringement is an "unintende…
Can't it be trivially reinstated then by removing any references to copyrighted content? youtube-dl has plenty of legitimate uses beyond just copyright infringement.
Which is why RIAA is trying to kill the code itself.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#207This really needs to stop happening
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#208How is this not perjury again? They need to be punished for this harshly.
How is this perjury? No one's under oath.
Perjury may or may not be the right term here, but it's definitely bad faith. EU and German legal definitions hold no weight on a US law. The repo contains no copyrighted material.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#209> 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…
DMCA is a bad law, but you'd have a harder time arguing a general purpose web browser meets any of the following conditions: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 (2)No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that— (A)is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a techn…
You could probably scratch out A and B by emphasizing how useful youtube-dl is for grabbing local copies of MIT licensed university lectures.
C is harder, given the README.md examples.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#210> 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…
> 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 get rid of computers altogether. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html (1997)
[deleted]