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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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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.

They're probably claiming it's a circumvention device. Some knives (switchblades and gravity knives especially) are illegal in most places. I think the UK is even stricter.

> Some knives (switchblades and gravity knives especially) are illegal in most places.

I think it's usually about carrying them in public outside your house. Likely not as illegal to have them at home.

Gravity knives are scary in that the police have occasionally argued that certain common pocketknives (e.g. Leatherman) can be used as a gravity knife and arrest people (usually minorities of the wrong color). I once was going on a road trip across multiple states and had to research the laws of each state because I was carrying a Leatherman.

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

#352

You 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

I can still find youtube-dl on gitlab, so it's still out there.

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

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post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not because Word doesn't: 1. Advertise that it is intended to aid in copyright infringement 2. Include some tools to circumvent DRM used in harry potter e-books.

I didn't notice that. Links?

The test suite uses YT URLs to copyrighted works to ensure it can download properly and that the metadata is accurate.

Not quite the same as using downloading a copyrighted work as an example in the README, but still a very poor choice.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have some sort of RMS-style setup? If so, I'm curious about your reasons for that and why mainstream browsers aren't an option for you

Not the OP but I’m a heavy youtube-dl user. I live in a rural area where my only internet option is satellite (HughesNet) which is basically unusable for any kind of streaming media. I rent an office in town to do software work and use youtube-dl to download videos for later viewing at home.

This is similar to my use case as well. I just cannot watch a video from Youtube itself, the connection would be lost so many times it'd stop trying after 1% or less. The only solution is to painfully and slowly download it to my system, over time, and hope there aren't cases that destroy the 60% you downloaded over the last 2 days.

If nothing happens to replace or reinstate youtube-dl, a lot of people like you and me are simply cut off from video content. This is pretty much terrible.

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

#358

It is a bit of a tough question. How would I feel about someone borrowing a book from a library and then photocopying it to keep a local copy? If the intent was to re-distribute then I would not feel comfortable allowing it. However, if the proposed remedy was to ban personal ownership of photocopiers I would not even consider that a valid approach. But would I expect I could keep my own photocopied version instead o…

I agree with your moral analysis here, and that the prohibited thing should be the distribution of protected IP, not simply retaining a copy of something you already had rights to view (which I think there is substantial precedent for).

This is the big problem with the DMCA. It shortcuts the messy dirty work of dealing with IP violations, to the benefit of large corporations and the detriment of individuals. The former engage in rampant abuse of their powers under the DMCA, apparently without any fear of significant consequences. It's just another example of the degree to which large corporations own America.

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

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post #139

While its good to get a backup of the source code, youtube-dl is one of those projects that quickly becomes useless as Google mixes stuff around within YouTube, which they like to do. Without an active developer base, the project will quickly become less and less effective, which is one of the big concerns IMO about this lawsuit.

Regarding this, does anyone know where the best place to hear from the main developers is?

Youtube is bound to make a breaking change any day now, and as-is I have no idea where to look for updates to the project once this happens.

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

#360

You 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

I can still install it via pip: pip3 install --user --upgrade youtube-dl So I guess they haven't issued a take down to PyPy yet.

*PyPi. PyPy is an alternate implementation of python.
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