The future is so bright I can hardly see

[ohnopigeons]

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

[PKPenguin321]

fucking ridiculous
at least ive got the latest build already :V

[cacogen]

how do you dmca an open source program used to download youtube videos that may or may not be protected by copyright

[PKPenguin321]

you can't and this won't hold, not a chance. the dmca lists specific copyrights on a few songs which is a boneheaded move because the program in no way hits them specifically

[cacogen]

but if they've already taken it down then surely github has decided that despite the fact that the takedown notice holds no merit and is targeted at the wrong person they're going to honour the request anyway

[Armhulen]

but if they've already taken it down then surely github has decided that despite the fact that the takedown notice holds no merit and is targeted at the wrong person they're going to honour the request anyway

Github says they'll notify people before takedown but they straight up don't, so basically any counter claim will do fine.

[Lumbermancer]

how do you dmca an open source program used to download youtube videos that may or may not be protected by copyright

Because you are bypassing advertisement system.

[callanrockslol]

how do you dmca an open source program used to download youtube videos that may or may not be protected by copyright

Because you are bypassing advertisement system.

It was the RIAA that did it, not YouTube.

They're just being cunts trying to justify their own existence. As per usual.

[cacogen]

how do you dmca an open source program used to download youtube videos that may or may not be protected by copyright

Because you are bypassing advertisement system.

Sir I have not used this why would I want to download a youtube video when I could kill myself instead

[PKPenguin321]

how do you dmca an open source program used to download youtube videos that may or may not be protected by copyright

Because you are bypassing advertisement system.

this was not the basis by which the RIAA filed the takedown and is irrelevant. also as far as i know the ability to stream videos ad-free over a hidden API is a feature of youtube that's built into it, and not a quirk of the youtube-dl tool.

in other news: https://twitter.com/lrvick/status/1319729448166580227
and make sure you grab youtube-dl.wav, a cool new song on soundcloud

[skoglol]

https://github.com/github/dmca/pull/8148

[Lumbermancer]

how do you dmca an open source program used to download youtube videos that may or may not be protected by copyright

Because you are bypassing advertisement system.

this was not the basis by which the RIAA filed the takedown and is irrelevant. also as far as i know the ability to stream videos ad-free over a hidden API is a feature of youtube that's built into it, and not a quirk of the youtube-dl tool.

in other news: https://twitter.com/lrvick/status/1319729448166580227
and make sure you grab youtube-dl.wav, a cool new song on soundcloud

close enough

[cacogen]

Fig. 1 - Cow tools

[PKPenguin321]

the instance of the "example of obtaining copyrighted material" grabs something like 1 second of a copyrighted music video which is well within the legal boundaries of fair use

[PKPenguin321]

As predicted, it's back up: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/27013

The statement from github about the topic has a lot of notable stuff, namely that they will establish a million dollar developer defense fund to help people fight bullshit DMCAs and that they will look much more closely at future DMCAs before acting on them.

Here's a letter that was cited as a key part of why Github decided to reinstate youtube-dl, notably containing a number of legal and technical explanations including irrefutable proof that the test download cases were clearly legal fair use and that the "rolling cypher" that the RIAA claimed youtube-dl circumvented used as part of their takedown claim was verifiably false (as in, literally made up).

All in all, this has probably been a good thing for open source development (at least on Github) in the long run. The RIAA can suck my balls

[Lumbermancer]