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

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I wonder what websites apart from the site coordinating development have been sued and turned off? I guess I'll find out tonight when I try to download my daily posted videos though.

 

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Host of Youtube-dl Web Site Sued by Major Record Labels - Slashdot

"As part of their growing battle against popular open source software tool youtube-dl, three major music labels are now suing Uberspace, the company that currently hosts the official youtube-dl homepage," reports TorrentFreak: According to plaintiffs Sony, Universal and Warner, youtube-dl...

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I know you're in love with Slashdot but would it have been too difficult for you to have directly linked to the original article?

Major Record Labels Sue Youtube-dl's Hosting Provider * TorrentFreak

Sony, Universal and Warner have filed a lawsuit against German hosting company Uberspace for hosting the website of ripping tool youtube-dl.

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Also in other news, it's a bit late to try and get youtube-dl taken down, everybody has moved on to using yt-dlp instead.

 

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YouTube-DL Forks to Continue Supporting Older Versions of Python - Slashdot

Wikipedia defines youtube-dl as "a free and open source download manager for video and audio from YouTube and over 1,000 other video hosting websites." It was created in 2006, and "According to libraries.io, 308 other packages and 1.43k repositories depend on it." The project now has over...

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