YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Post by dmos62 » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 8:44 PM UTC

deepender99 wrote: post #265

yamrzou wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if collaboration on opensource projects (i.e. hosting, issues and their comments) was decentralized instead of relying on a central entity like Github? That would keep the developer base active and make DMCA takedowns ineffective.

keybase.io provide decentralized crypto solution, it's better to open source community to move on to such crypto soluion

Post by zucker42 » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 8:45 PM UTC

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…

Post by em3rgent0rdr » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 8:46 PM UTC

_underfl0w_ wrote: post #287

Nextgrid wrote: post #87

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I remember books (with the code inside) being used as a workaround for cryptography export controls. I wonder if the same could apply here ( if this notice holds up to begin with), either as a book with code, or as a book with instructions in English language that are equivalent to what the code does.

This is a very underrated workaround. I had no idea this was used.

Post by loup-vaillant » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 8:47 PM UTC

eli wrote: post #165

CivBase wrote: post #99

> 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…

Post by throwawaylolx » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 8:47 PM UTC

Kim_Bruning wrote: post #286

Lesson learned: always use Creative Commons licensed data to demo your multimedia tools. Else people get the wrong idea. Some examples for youtube-dl might be: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqz-KE-bpKQ Big buck bunny * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRsGyueVLvQ Sintel * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhWc3b3KhnY Spring In fact, youtube actually allows you to filter by CC, so there's never a reason not to!