Nice...I bet the evil RIAA didn't think only about the two tests when they reported the project....
Actually that's all they complained about.
Hold up...
Copyright lawyers are idiots, next question.
YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
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Re: YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
And not even purged from the repo, it's still in the history if needed. Seems like the copyright holders making a big fuss over nothing really.
I wonder if RIAA lawyers believe themselves productive members of society, or if they recognize themselves as the parasites they are.
They see themselves as the last bastion of decency in a world full of violation.
Re: YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
#33Excellent. Looks like they've removed the tests for RIAA member videos as the only change, which I assume helped get this restored: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/1fb034d029c8b7...
And not even purged from the repo, it's still in the history if needed. Seems like the copyright holders making a big fuss over nothing really.
> Seems like the copyright holders making a big fuss over nothing really.
This should be the conclusion. Since they have won nothing with such whole noise. Only increase more the OSS wave.
Re: YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
And not even purged from the repo, it's still in the history if needed. Seems like the copyright holders making a big fuss over nothing really.
I wonder if RIAA lawyers believe themselves productive members of society, or if they recognize themselves as the parasites they are.
Everyone thinks they're saving the world. I'm sure the RIAA sleeps soundly knowing they're defending the rights of creative individuals to make a living and holding the line against the scourge of amoral nihilistic pirates.
Re: YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
#35But now I guess Github should be used as a read-only redundancy rather than for development.
Re: YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
#36The amount of publicity this generated for youtube-dl is astounding... I would love for this to be a ”the plan to get rid of youtube-dl backfired badly for RIAA” ending. But I guess RIAA is reviled enough already so nothing they do really matters. So I suppose the hope is that some political will to change the laws around this arises from it.
> So I suppose the hope is that some political will to change the laws around this arises from it.
We had mass demonstrations across Europe with the Article 13 fiasco and nothing happened.
Revolutions aside, copyright will never be reformed anywhere in a consumer friendly manner - politicians are way too deep in the pockets of the industry.
Re: YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
#37GitHub is still hosting the full youtube-dl version history, including versions which include those supposedly infringing tests. Does copyright law end with HEAD on master? Those tests are still there.
This makes it especially obvious that the RIAA's problem with youtube-dl was never really the tests.
Re: YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
#38Well this was a wild ride from start to finish. Anyone got a count on how many times someone suggested distributing YouTube-dl via a blockchain in all these discussions? Also, how come Google hasn’t asked for it to be taken down given that it has YouTube in the name?
Please don't try to give Google any ideas.
Re: YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if RIAA lawyers believe themselves productive members of society, or if they recognize themselves as the parasites they are.
Everyone thinks they're saving the world. I'm sure the RIAA sleeps soundly knowing they're defending the rights of creative individuals to make a living and holding the line against the scourge of amoral nihilistic pirates.
I'm much more cynical. They know they're bastards but they make far far too much money to care.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
The webhost had a different situation: neither code nor binaries were hosted with them. Although DMCA specifically doesn't apply to a German hoster of course, and uberspace is run by the kinds of people that'd probably try and take this to court instead of just rolling over.
I don't follow, a few days ago I downloaded the tarball of the code and 'binary' (it's a Python script) from their website. Both seemed to be hosted there. https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl-2020.11.1...
Same, but interestingly enough today when I click the link my browser Palemoon’s popup dialog (asking whether to open in an extractor app or just download) says the file is from https://gitlab.com.