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YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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

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Post by sj_krueger »

arno1 wrote: post #339

Seems like a fresh mirror here https://gitea.eponym.info/Mirrors/youtube-dl to fork and start it over somewhere else. Gitea is a great project. Now we need someone to fork and publish it over Tor or something. Decentralized solution would be a next step. Diff between that mirror and the one from the web.archive.com looks good. I.e. no hidden/evil things inside. Looks safe to start over. ``` $ git log --oneline -3 48c…

Thank you.

I have created the repo at Darktea, feel free to create your anonymous accounts and join the project, until we find a better/decentralized place.

For now this should be sufficient:

http://it7otdanqu7ktntxzm427cba6i53w6wlanlh23v5i3siqmos47pzh...

I will give the main contributors the neccessary access for reviewing/merging/etc.. or will entirely hand over the project if you can prove you are the maintainer.

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

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Post by JdeBP »

Kim_Bruning wrote: post #286

Lesson learned: always use Creative Commons licensed data to demo your multimedia tools. Else people get the wrong idea. Some examples for youtube-dl might be: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqz-KE-bpKQ Big buck bunny * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRsGyueVLvQ Sintel * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhWc3b3KhnY Spring In fact, youtube actually allows you to filter by CC, so there's never a reason not to!

Let's see what happens and whether indeed these lessons have been learned.

* https://github.com/Larry850806/youtube-downloader/issues/1

* https://github.com/Athlon1600/youtube-downloader/issues/81

* https://github.com/ZerioDev/Youtube-Downloader/issues/2

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

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Post by theelous3 »

gamblor956 wrote: post #656
stingraycharles wrote: post #283

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to add a data point, but back when I still was working for a video distribution startup, we offered our customers the ability to directly import their video inventory from YouTube. They were the owners of the videos, it was just a convenient (and very popular!) feature for them to let us handle this import. We used YouTube-dl for this, of course. No way we could have done this easily without it. We imported hund…

Right, but that's not the heart of the matter. It's one thing if a tool designed for legitimate archiving use results in incidental violation of copyright. It's another thing entirely, legally, if a tool is designed for violating copyright. In such case, it doesn't matter if there are also legitimate fair use uses of the tool. And that's what the README showed: that youtube-dl was built primarily to violate copyright…

edit: I misread.

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

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Post by tawm »

fyrabanks wrote: post #557
AkumaNoTsubasa wrote: post #550

>Note that RIAA is making this takedown because the software CAN be used to download copyrighted music and videos Well, then please also Block all Browsers, SSH, Tunnel, etc. too, because you can use those too to easily download copyrighted material.

this is honestly the first Hacker News article in a few years that made me yell at my computer. pure insanity.

I'm going with that this whole thread is extremely astroturfed and that the shills are out in full force. For the sake of my own sanity. FUCK the RIAA.

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

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Post by anticensor »

Iv wrote: post #800

Delenda RIAA The whole copyright industry is based on toxic premises that do not hold true anymore in the internet age. By now, different models have been proven to work. Make them the norm. Abolish copyright. Or turn them back into what they were supposed to be: a TEMPORARY protection of a work since first publication (originally 21 years IIRC). Old Disney characters, superheroes invented in the 40s and 50s, even th…

Originally 28 years in the US, perpertual but voluntary in the UK.

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

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Post by antihero »

iso1210 wrote: post #910
kmlx wrote: post #852

Earlier quoted context omitted.

isn’t DMCA a US law? so why not move youtube-dl outside the US github to a country that doesn’t have DMCA/copyright?

The US decided their laws, specifically the DMCA, applied globally back in 2001 [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd .

I've always struggled with the idea of laws that seemingly seem to overstep their jurisdiction.

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

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Post by ordo_inf »

benn_88 wrote: post #582
ordo_inf wrote: post #521

Everybody, go to PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/youtube_dl/#files Download the whl. Download the tar.gz. ???? Profit. Also, a recommendation for the youtube_dl crew is to use a self-hosted solution (if GitHub/GitLab/SourceForge wont do). Find a cheap Linux hosting provider and run Gitea on it: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea It's the best tips I can give for now.

I wonder if a) PyPI will get a DMCA notice and b) PyPI honours such notices.

As others have mentioned, I believe that the main problem here is that youtube_dl is "showing intent" to violate DMCA. If they modify the readme, they might be able to prove that the intention of the software is not necessarily to violate DMCA, but maybe just being a general purpose code or one for educational purposes.

Regardless, it's possible to host PyPi wheels yourself if necessary. The installation process wont be as straight-forward as "pip install youtube_dl", but it's still doable with one command.

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