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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

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Post by userbinator »

orliesaurus wrote: post #13

> 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 example, as shown on Exhibit A, the source code expressly suggests its use to copy and/or distribute the following copyrighted works owned by our member companies IMHO this wasn't the best move, I mean... t…

If I remember correctly, PopcornTime's screenshots and examples were all carefully selected to contain only public domain movies for this reason.

Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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Post by nguyenkien »

dheera wrote: post #5

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl > Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown. (a) Are there mirrors? (b) Are there Github equivalents in e.g. Russia where the RIAA doesn't have jurisdiction or extradition power?

Chinese gitee, or self-hosted some where

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found one: https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader

Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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Post by paulgb »

orliesaurus wrote: post #13

> 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 example, as shown on Exhibit A, the source code expressly suggests its use to copy and/or distribute the following copyrighted works owned by our member companies IMHO this wasn't the best move, I mean... t…

Copyrighted content with a notoriously litigious industry group behind it, no less.

Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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Post by molmalo »

jchw wrote: post #4

Note 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 was thinking the same thing: The next step following this line of thinking would be trying to ban all torrent clients, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted material.

This is crazy.

Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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Post by inasio »

Santosh83 wrote: post #7

How 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.

Switchblades are illegal in many places (all of Canada for example).
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