YouTube-DL & Other Open Source Projects V/s Squibs and Muggles

[TeDaDeS]

It's clear the tool is 100% made to download youtube videos, but DCMA doesn't sound like the appropriate tool to solve this issue.
The code itself isn't copied, it's the use of it that could break the law.

Notice:
The clear purpose of this source code is to
(i) circumvent the technological protection measures used by authorized streaming services such as YouTube, and
(ii) reproduce and distribute music videos and sound recordings owned by our member companies without authorization for such use.
We note that the source code is described on GitHub as “a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites.”1

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[levi]

Use of the DMCA is nothing to with copyright, it's entire purpose is to sue people who circumvent dubiously legal mechanisms that stop computer uses of media.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

It's fun to stay at the DMCA :^)

 

[Linux-SWAT]

RIAA's YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub's CEO - Slashdot

An RIAA takedown request, which removed the YouTube-DL repository from GitHub, has ticked off developers and GitHub's CEO. Numerous people responded by copying and republishing the contested code, including in some quite clever ways. Meanwhile, GitHub's CEO is "annoyed" as well, offering help to...

news.slashdot.org

 

[levi]

Unfortunately those images shared by galaticfurball seem to have been gimped by twitter. I can't say if it's deliberate or not, but all I can get off there now is 320x320 images, so I think they've been downscaled from 512x512, and I get a duff archive if I follow the instructions there. Nice try though. In the mean time, the code is still in plenty of places on the internet, what the RIAA have broken is the dev process.

 

[elvissteinjr]

Those Twitter images do totally work. You just need to make sure to get served the highest resolution variant available. Basically, the image URL should end with "?format=png&name=orig", though "name=large" is usually enough as well.

 

[NutNut]

youtube-dl2/youtube-dl

Repository with the code of youtube-dl. Contribute to youtube-dl2/youtube-dl development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[HelenF]

Curious, in that DMCA, there's a redacted repo marked private. Does this mean it was a private GitHub repo? If so, how was the RIAA able to find it?

That doesn't necessarily mean it was a private GitHub repo. The other redacted things on that page are marked the same way, and there could have been another reason to redact it.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: The RIAA is ramping up the pressure on a wide range of platforms allegedly involved in music piracy. Two DMCA subpoenas obtained against Cloudflare and Namecheap require the companies to hand over all information they hold on more than 40 torrent sites...

it.slashdot.org

 

[Null]

RIAA drone: Sir we've received the requested data, it seems that all of the sites are owned by a person called I. P. Freely.

 

[FBnil]

RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: The RIAA is ramping up the pressure on a wide range of platforms allegedly involved in music piracy. Two DMCA subpoenas obtained against Cloudflare and Namecheap require the companies to hand over all information they hold on more than 40 torrent sites...

it.slashdot.org

Help! I clicked on your link, which contained another link, which told me to:

now my inserted "pp" is stuck in a tube and I'm afraid someone is "saving a video" of all this.

 

[Null]

Don't forget to use protection if you're going to be inserting your pp into YouTube.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

The Slashdot article listed a bunch of youtube download methods/sites.
I guess that youtube pp is making downloading easy by adding "pp" to the address of the currently viewed video ?

 

[docbroke]

New version of youtube-dl released yesterday at https://youtube-dl.org/
Development at https://gitlab.com/dstftw/youtube-dl/-/releases

 

[Linux-SWAT]

GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: On October 23, 2020, the RIAA decided on action to stunt the growth and potentially the entire future of popular YouTube-ripping tool YouTube-DL. The music industry group filed a copyright complaint with code repository Github, demanding...

yro.slashdot.org

 

[fusion_power]

Just use JDownloader 2, best program for all kinds of downloads. It never disappointed me.

 

[PowerGod]

Just use JDownloader 2, best program for all kinds of downloads. It never disappointed me.

The only issue is that it's not so straightforward to use from command-line

 

[fusion_power]

The only issue is that it's not so straightforward to use from command-line

Maybe not, but who ever would like to do that if you have an good GUI? Just copy/paste your URLs and done. It's not that much slower than command-line magic imho.

 

[levi]

My video server is mostly run headless, connecting to it over ssh to download and preprocess my videos for me. It does have a monitor attached and an install of i3 running on it, but that's mainly for if this machine goes down and I need a machine to do research on to bring it back up.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub - Slashdot

Two weeks ago the RIAA asked GitHub to remove the open-source stream-ripper software youtube-dl. This request wasn't well-received by developers, many of whom retaliated by posting copies of the code. Yesterday, things went from bad to worse when a user with the name 'FuckTheRIAA' uploaded three...

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Haha.