This needs free legal assistance from EFF and needs to go to court if RIAA is actually ready to litigate this
I don't think Microsoft needs the EFFs help.
YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
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Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#72I frequently use YouTube-dl, and have never once used it to download music videos and sound recordings owned by member companies of the RIAA.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
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#74Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#75https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl > Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown. (a) Are there mirrors? (b) Are there Github equivalents in e.g. Russia where the RIAA doesn't have jurisdiction or extradition power?
You can grab from the web archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201018120927/https://github.co...
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#76How 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.
This isn't a new debate; in the early days of the DMCA, it was used to go after the author of DeCSS [0], despite the fact that legitimate Fair Use cases for the tool exist (personal backups, playback on unsupported devices at the time, like Linux PCs). The case was in fact stronger there, as DeCSS explicitly circumvented encryption [1], which AFAIK youtube-dl does not.
And, of course, the infamous case of Napster [2]; while the vast majority of user behavior was obviously piracy, the tool/network itself was content-neutral, and could also be used for public domain content, or works published with the permission of the copyright holder.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS
[1] https://www.stoel.com/legal-insights/article/the-anti-circum...
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#77They should have counter claimed this nonsense instead of taking down the repo. RIAA is an abusive troll.
Github is obligated to take down the "offending" content as soon as they receive a DMCA notice. It's then on the owner of that content to file a counter claim to restore it.
Even if the content is not in violation of DMCA, your files will be gone for a day or two, or longer depending on how slow the publishing platform operators are to process the counter claim and how long it takes to file the counter claim.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#78But it can also be sued for downloading uncopyrighted material. It's like submitting DCMA for Office Word because people can use it for creating pirate copies of Harry Potter.
To be fair, more like "Harry Potter Copier Word".
To be fair, more like Microsoft® Office® OneNote™; it has a camera feature and an automatic OCR feature and a “copy text from image” convenience feature.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#79They should have counter claimed this nonsense instead of taking down the repo. RIAA is an abusive troll.
This is part of the DMCA process. Github takes it down until they get a counter-claim from the repo owner, don't think they really have much of a choice in it, legally.
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
ok so I might just be stupid but how does that link let me clone the repo?.....
https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.... is a ZIP containing the repo.
Wow I didn't think they'd host ZIP files of every commit of every repo.
Where the hell do they have that much hard disk space, and who is funding them?