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YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban

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Post by hbn »

LordShredda wrote: post #13
westmeal wrote: post #6

The RIAA can get fucked

There's a song, fuck the RIAA. See if you can find it on the pirate bay

Weird Al released a parody "charity song" in 2006 called Don't Download This Song that poked fun at them too.

    > Oh you don't want to mess with the RIAA
    > They'll sue you if you burn that CDR
    > It doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a seven year old girl
    > They'll treat you like the evil, hard bitten criminal scum you are
He also ironically hosted links on his website to download the song DRM-free!

Re: YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban

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Post by HumblyTossed »

charcircuit wrote: post #11
skyyler wrote: post #3

As noted in the article, the project still has a page on github: http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ I've moved on to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp anyways. But this is still an infuriating move. youtube-dl wasn't doing anything infringing on its site, was it?

yt-dlp is not youtube-dl

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Post by autoexec »

sgjohnson wrote: post #31
d0mine wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft is the freedom fighter? That it is indeed laughable.

Microsoft has largely stopped giving a fuck about piracy of their consumer products. py-kms is freely available on GitHub, and so are Windows Activation Tools. While arguably py-kms doesn’t violate anything, as it’s a cleanroom implementation of the KMS server, Windows Activation Tools definitely does. Either way, MS could eradicate all of those repositories, they aren’t doing it.

MS has done a good thing by defending youtube-dl but their lax enforcement concerning windows piracy is a bit different. MS turns a blind eye to windows piracy for the same reasons malware authors don't care if their software is spread on GitHub or P2P sites.

Microsoft cares much more about getting their hands on all your personal data than they care about the money they'd get from an OEM license. People can download an ISO for Windows 11 for free from microsoft.com and simply never activate it.

Re: YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban

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Post by stu2b50 »

sgjohnson wrote: post #31
d0mine wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft is the freedom fighter? That it is indeed laughable.

Microsoft has largely stopped giving a fuck about piracy of their consumer products. py-kms is freely available on GitHub, and so are Windows Activation Tools. While arguably py-kms doesn’t violate anything, as it’s a cleanroom implementation of the KMS server, Windows Activation Tools definitely does. Either way, MS could eradicate all of those repositories, they aren’t doing it.

The rise of SaaS has made piracy much less of a threat to revenue. Can’t pirate it if you need a server to do anything.

Re: YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban

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Post by stu2b50 »

can16358p wrote: post #36
qingcharles wrote: post #26

This is why I'm setting up a reverse proxy on another host in front of my web site, in case I get some fake takedown request from a competitor that causes my host to delete my account. At least if I use a proxy I can spend a small amount of time setting up a new proxy. I used to have a competitor who would email PayPal every couple of weeks to tell them our web site had CP on it just so PayPal would instantly shut of…

So PayPal's policy is "guilty until proven innocent". Nice, hope they go bankrupt.

That’s pretty much how all payment processors work. The issue for them is that letting fraudsters continue making payments will lead to big Ls for the payment processors, since they end up being on the hook for the money that card networks will clawback or liability from regulations and money laundering laws.

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Post by yoyohello13 »

tedunangst wrote: post #29
skyyler wrote: post #3

As noted in the article, the project still has a page on github: http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ I've moved on to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp anyways. But this is still an infuriating move. youtube-dl wasn't doing anything infringing on its site, was it?

Yeah, youtube-dl has been uselessly slow for me for over a year. Long since switched to yt-dlp.

Shh… don’t tell anyone about the other project.
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