Strange that email made it through. I delete any email in my inbox that begins with: Dear Sir or Madam as it looks like spam.
YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
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#812Earlier quoted context omitted.
We might as well ban screen shots because it can illegally reproduce photography stills. /s
Android allows applications to disable screenshots while they are running, as a form of DRM.
It's not a problem on a rooted phone, irrespective of what app developer decides or wants. And as I've mentioned, at a pinch, just photograph the screen with another device.
These days, just about anyone can copy anything that the DMCA covers despite any attempts to protect it. The answer is elsewhere, that is copyright laws have to be updated to be equitable to everyone. Unfortunately, it's dinosaurs like the RIAA who are standing in the way stopping it.
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#813Super surprising that software like this could exist in the legal space and with known creators. I mean, it's obviously a pirating app, it makes every effort to circumvent download protection right?
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#814Super surprising that software like this could exist in the legal space and with known creators. I mean, it's obviously a pirating app, it makes every effort to circumvent download protection right?
It just takes a video stream and saves it. There is no DRM bypassing or anything
Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#815I warned everyone The Fight Club Rule needed to be in effect. There is no Youtube-dl
Very true, but it was inevitable. The tool worked way too well to remain under the radar for too long. What will be interesting to watch will be where the forked versions of Youtube-dl will end up.
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#816Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
#817What a shocker
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#819Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's pretty ridiculous. They might argue that a browser is a technological measure to protect a copyrighted work which youtube-dl circumvents since the DMCA is written so vaguely. Cases like this demonstrate why anti-circumvention litigation really has to go.
Meh, pretty good claim of fair use. They are just picking a smaller file that unlikely to disappear or move. The fact the file is downloaded and then deleted via a script isn't a substitute for actually viewing the file and has zero commercial impact. And the take down could have been targeted against the particular files they found problematic rather than the whole project. And the whole thing is ceded to the public…
Fair use doesn't apply to DRM circumvention unfortunately. You can't even circumvent DRM for reasons completely unrelated to duplicating a copyrighted work.
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#820Earlier quoted context omitted.
While photocopying books for distribution is against the law, I disagree that it should be against the law. If 3 people all borrow the same book sequentially then it's fine. If one person borrow it, photocopies it twice to share with two others, then they've broken the law. And yet nobody in either case has made more or less money. I am in favor of copyright law that prevents profiting from another person's work, but…
> Once your idea is public knowledge, there is no reason for it not to spread freely given how easy it is to transmit information now. This treads into territory I feel is grey. I imagine the complex case where I sell some creative content (e.g. a pdf, audio file or video). You pay me for access to this content and download it. I grant that you ought to be able to retain a local copy of that content for so long as yo…
Your interest in creating content for profit might be diminished as a result but other people might be able to build on your work.