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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.
 
FWIW, a music video posted here in the past few days somewhere (I can't be arsed to find it now, but I recall it wasn't posted to the 'what music' thread), failed to download in the youtube-dl project as published before this takedown, but the newer released version posted from their gitlab source works just fine. In other words youtube owners google are still trying to break this project, or at the very least made changes which did break it, but the project maintainers are still able to work together and fix their project.

Edit: And that user 'fucktheRIAA' seems to have been summarily deleted from github. Probably because they used a rude word I guess.
 
Not really a backfire. The user made the post, the user got deleted. There's no sense of additional stuff coming down on him, which would be pretty much the definition of a good backfire, it's more of a reset to the beginning.
 
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EFF Argues RIAA is 'Abusing DMCA' to Take Down YouTube-DL - Slashdot

While the RIAA has objected to a tool for downloading online videos, EFF senior activist Elliot Harmon responds with this question. "Who died and put them in charge of YouTube?" He asks the question in a new video "explainer" on the controversy, and argues in a new piece at EFF.org that the...
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the dissapearance of the github link would prevent an update of youtube-dl inside "The Tube," I would need to check..
 
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GitHub Reinstates YouTube-dl Library After EFF Intervention - Slashdot

GitHub has reinstated today the youtube-dl open-source project, a Python library that lets users download the source audio and video files behind YouTube videos. From a report: GitHub, a code-hosting repository, had previously removed the library from its portal after it received a controversial...
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A bit "off topic". I have made a youtube-dl/ffplay/mplayer frontend for RISC OS port of this tools. ;-)

A small video you find here .

Is not possible to watch youtube directly via Browser in RISC OS. The browser are not support this but you can drag the URL from browser to the YTPlay icon or use the search list ;-)
 
Linux-SWAT said:
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GitHub Reinstates YouTube-dl Library After EFF Intervention - Slashdot

GitHub has reinstated today the youtube-dl open-source project, a Python library that lets users download the source audio and video files behind YouTube videos. From a report: GitHub, a code-hosting repository, had previously removed the library from its portal after it received a controversial...
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Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back

Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.
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Process DMCA request · github/dmca@e00bfb5

Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Additional information about our DMCA policy can be found at - Process DMCA...
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EFF letter to GitHub.
 
This looks pretty good. This "takedown mecanism" seems fair (at least you have a chance to defend/explain yourself, and you are not-guilty until proven otherwise). Compare to just DMCA were your are just guilty, by someone else standard.
 
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Pirate Bay Founder Warns US Govt Against Mafia-Esque Copyright Lobby - Slashdot

One of the original founders of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, is warning against the power American corporations have on the internet. After several copyright industry groups reported Sunde's domain registration service Njalla to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), branding it a "notorious...
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I like the "screwing" part :^)
 
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Can @docbroke or a mod change the thread title please? Youtube-dl was never actually taken down; even during it's absence from Github they managed to release an update, and their presence on github has since been restated.

Perhaps the new title should be 'Big business versus the open source community (was: youtube-dl taken down)'
 
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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