It's amazing what kind of mental gymnastics can allow someone to think you can watch a video without downloading it. Lawyers live in a world very unlike reality.
YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban
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#52this paves the way to make archiving illegal, is that what germany wants?
It's what our corporate overlords and their pet politicians want, and they ain't gonna stop fighting until George Orwell spins in his grave, and prolly not even then.
We already had mass censorship of wrongthink on social media coerced by federal agencies. This is petty by comparison and Orwell has been spinning for years now.
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#53this paves the way to make archiving illegal, is that what germany wants?
It's what our corporate overlords and their pet politicians want, and they ain't gonna stop fighting until George Orwell spins in his grave, and prolly not even then.
To control the future, control the present; to control the present, control the past...
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The wider internet has some kind of brain damage where they think spreading stuff like this is a smart way of protesting.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shh… don’t tell anyone about the other project.
The wider internet has some kind of brain damage where they think spreading stuff like this is a smart way of protesting.
I agree and I don't. We can rip dvds almost precisely, because spreading stuff beyond the ability for it to be easily controlled under single point of failure.
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#56How are people supposed to produce videos that include other Youtube clips without a tool like this?
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#57As 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.
You have to build it from source to avoid the 60kbps limit. There hasn't been a release since Dec 2021 and there have been some updates since then that implement the 'puzzle' to get the right value of the url parameter.
It's worth noting that YouTube is trialling a new player and a lot of applications (invidious, new pipe, etc) are experiencing some issues in the last couple of weeks.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
worse, it's about making download tools illegal, even if the download itself is legitimate.
Its basically the VCR recording uSA Supreme Court case all over again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive... .
Yeah but for some reason in the 90s American Judges decided to throw that whole "justice for everyone" thing out the window and now explicitly empower ONLY certain giant rightsholders to have any rights.
I'm waiting for a judge to accept an argument that web browsers should be illegal because they allow you to look at infringing content.