As a good internet citizen I have only one question: Where can I find a mirror to fork to preserve this piece of software?
YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
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Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#602While 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.
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.
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Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#603Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's interesting how many Github counternotices (e.g., [1] [2]) seem completely justified yet link to repositories that are no longer on GitHub. I wonder what happened. [1] in https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/05/2020-05-0... someone forked a permissively-licensed project; the original author made the project-closed source, then issued a DMCA takedown against the fork. That's clearly bogus: you can't re…
Jetbrains is also constantly taking down cracks/piracy license servers/etc - see [0,1,2]. 0: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-0... 1: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/01/2020-01-1... 2: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2019/09/2019-09-0...
WTF this isn't copyright infringement. This is breach of TOS, technically. They have no grounds to use DMCA takedowns for this.
How in the world is Github allowing this?
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#604Note 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…
This is so annoying... this means they can go after the OS we are using because some kids use their OS to download pirated stuff
Linux is already often banned in online videogames with claims that it's done to prevent cheating
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#605Assuming youtube-dl is dead and the web APIs become hopelessly obfuscated, how hard would it be to talk to youtube as if I were a samsung smart tv? Perhaps the next iteration of this project can leverage google's own insatiable greed against them. Embedding youtube into every "smart" device on the face of the planet probably requires that google maintain a fairly consistent private API which all of these devices can…
YouTube TV is a web page, albeit one you can't simply open with a web browser. Google could easily obfuscate it too.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#606Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think a better analogy is to forbid an OCR software because they COULD be used to reproduce a book.
Yeah, anyone using it to save books for future generations instead having them rot to nothing should burn in hell! (sarcasm)
I have kept an eye on a massive amount of content and it's truly horrifying how much content is lost each month. It's not even clear violation of copyright, it's just that nobody small has the energy to fight for fair use.
There should be no DMCA, all ligitation should cost the person suing a percent of income. The tyranny big players have is disgusting.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#607Earlier 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.
Git seems like a great candidate for hosting through TOR; it's super low bandwidth. I often find myself wondering why DMCA'd fan projects don't just switch to anonymous TOR hosting. Obviously it's not bulletproof, but if it's just copyright holders you have to worry about and not state actors then it seems like a great solution.
> a great candidate
Not just a candidate. Torsocks + Git works perfectly. There's no mainstream free Tor Git hosting I know of, so that's a market ripe for picking.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#608Also note that forking a repository on github is not enough to make it your code.
All the connected forks have also been disabled. Better to clone and re-push if you ask me.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#609Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm actually curious, when you run "youtube-dl --update" where does it update from? What domain? Trying it now results in: ERROR: can't find the current version. Please try again later. I'm unclear if it had always updated itself from GitHub or elsewhere.
$ rg 'UPDATE_URL|VERSION_URL' youtube_dl/update.py 35: UPDATE_URL = 'https://yt-dl.org/update/' 36: VERSION_URL = UPDATE_URL + 'LATEST_VERSION' 37: JSON_URL = UPDATE_URL + 'versions.json' 46: newversion = opener.open(VERSION_URL).read().decode('utf-8').strip() $ curl -IL https://yt-dl.org/update/LATEST_VERSION HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:15:04 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Location: https://ytdl…
What is `rg`? I like its output better than grep's.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#610Earlier quoted context omitted.
But what is being circumvented? As far as I'm aware there are no controls put in place that are being circumvented. Edit: I'm also curious why the riaa would have standing at all? Even assuming there is some protection being circumvented, it's not the riaa's control that is being circumvented.
Saving videos
Youtube-dl doesn't do anything your browser doesn't do already do when accessing said video.
Also, I asked what is being circumvented, not what the tool does.