youtube-dl no more?

[Buck Fankers]

The youtube-dl GitHub repo has received a DMCA takedown request from the RIAA

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comment ... ed_a_dmca/

[metreo]

Strong argument in favor of moving code off of GitHub.

[handy]

Where there is a will...

https://gitlab.com/MariaTelos/youtube-d ... /README.md

[dolphin_oracle]

All it takes is an riaa dmca notice to gitlab...

[sunrat]

So RIAA issues takedown because it might be used to download copyright material. Guess it 's too hard for them to chase down the millions of illegal copyright-infringing Youtube posts. Shame the same argument doesn't get applied to guns because they might be used to kill people.
I've mostly used youtube-dl to download material which is not available anywhere else. Glad it's still available on Gitlab and PyPI.

All it takes is an riaa dmca notice to gitlab...

Where there's a will... maybe it will end up on IRC or Pirate Bay.

[dolphin_oracle]

I would think a dmca notice would be a little murky anyway, given that as far as I know, youtube-dl doesn't download drm'd content.

[Adrian]

I would think a dmca notice would be a little murky anyway, given that as far as I know, youtube-dl doesn't download drm'd content.

Does it break Youtube terms of use? Can DMCA notice use that?

[timkb4cq]

The RIAA's contention is that youtube-dl is designed to circumvent the YouTube Standard License under which their content is only licensed for streaming from YouTube.
I think they have a reasonably good legal case here - particularly because of the examples the developers chose to include with the source code.
Just as going to a movie doesn't license you record the movie to play later at home, streaming from YouTube doesn't license you to save a copy to play later.

We also note that the source code prominently includes as sample uses of the source code the downloading of copies of our members’ copyrighted sound recordings and music videos, as noted in Exhibit A hereto. For example, as shown on Exhibit A, the source code expressly suggests its use to copy and/or distribute the following copyrighted works owned by our member companies:

• Icona Pop – I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) [Official Video], owned by Warner Music Group
• Justin Timberlake – Tunnel Vision (Explicit), owned by Sony Music Group
• Taylor Swift – Shake it Off, owned/exclusively licensed by Universal Music Group

The source code notes that the Icona Pop work identified above is under the YouTube Standard license, which expressly restricts access to copyrighted works only for streaming on YouTube and prohibits their further reproduction or distribution without consent of the copyright owner; that the Justin Timberlake work identified above is under an additional age protection identifier; and that the request for the Taylor Swift work identified above is to obtain, without authorization of the copyright owner or YouTube, an M4A audio file from the audiovisual work in question.

We have a good faith belief that this activity is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. We assert that the information in this notification is accurate, based upon the data available to us.

[Adrian]

So, time to put the pitchforks away?

[sunrat]

So, time to put the pitchforks away?

It was pretty dumb of the youtube-dl devs to use those examples. Time for them to rise again with renamed software using CC licensed examples.