YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA • Hacker News Board

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

#451

Post by fandroid » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 9:28 PM UTC

As it turns out, a few days ago, I was reminiscing with an old school DJ about sample-based music production. My argument was that all one needs is a DAW and youtube-dl. It seems that the timing of my argument was rather inauspicious.

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

#452

Post by davidjnelson » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 9:28 PM UTC

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…

Lol that’s awesome. Law is complicated.

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

#453

Post by fenwick67 » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 9:28 PM UTC

Raymonf wrote: post #362

curtis3389 wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone should issue DMCAs for the Chromium and Firefox repos. Fight fire with fire.

That is extremely illegal.

How is it illegal to file a DMCA takedown request if you believe you have legal standing to do so?

EDIT: The DMCA doesn't require that you have a law degree to submit a takedown request, it just requires that you truly believe it is infringing.

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

#454

Post by mulmen » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 9:29 PM UTC

mohamez wrote: post #331

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…

Or let's remove knives from all together from this world because someone is using the to kill other people.

If you sell a "murderizer 3000" and explain in the owner's manual how to inflict a fatal wound and maybe also not leave any evidence behind it doesn't take a genius to argue you're selling a murder weapon, to murderers.

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

#455

Post by sschueller » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 9:29 PM UTC

fenwick67 wrote: post #449

brink wrote: post #442

Is there a decentralized version control system solution out there to host projects like this?

Yes, it's called Git.

This is such a snark reply, you know exact that git and github are not the same thing.

Discovery and issue management is important and is not part of git.

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

#456

Post by saagarjha » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 9:29 PM UTC

fenwick67 wrote: post #449

brink wrote: post #442

Is there a decentralized version control system solution out there to host projects like this?

Yes, it's called Git.

I suspect that the parent comment might have been a joke.

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

#457

Post by ojagodzinski » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 9:29 PM UTC

fenwick67 wrote: post #449

brink wrote: post #442

Is there a decentralized version control system solution out there to host projects like this?

Yes, it's called Git.

how git is decentralized?

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

#458

Post by dvt » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 9:29 PM UTC

Oh the irony of cloning a banned repo from a Chinese git mirror...

    c:\Users\david\dev\git
    λ git clone https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader.git
    Cloning into 'youtube-downloader'...
    remote: Enumerating objects: 98560, done.
    remote: Counting objects: 100% (98560/98560), done.
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (30542/30542), done.
    remote: Total 98560 (delta 73037), reused 90045 (delta 66441), pack-reused 0
    Receiving objects: 100% (98560/98560), 49.86 MiB | 9.58 MiB/s, done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (73037/73037), done.

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

#459

Post by ddingus » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

Seems to me this is leading to contested cases that can be routed to a more corporatist friendly Supreme Court.

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

#460

Post by nogabebop23 » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

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…

Even if we restrict the target set to "tools with a high likelyhood of being used for an illegal purpose" which I believe youtube-dl belongs in, when is the RIAA going after "guns"?