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This is gonna break youtube-dl-gui and similar apps that rely on it.

I wonder why they picked on youtube-dl (apart from the obvious example howtos) when there are dozens of Firefox Add-ons and presumably Chrome ones too which do exactly the same thing?

Stevo wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2020 7:41 am This is gonna break youtube-dl-gui and similar apps that rely on it.

It already has for playx. But I'll wait for a fix. After the dust settles and some changes are being made. Things will just be up and running again. Maybe under a different name and maybe rewritten in a different format. Just have to wait and see, the ending results.

handy wrote: Sat Oct 24, 2020 7:54 am Where there is a will...
https://gitlab.com/MariaTelos/youtube-d ... /README.md

Looks like, there is plenty of will
If you look at current trending for Python packages, out of top 5, 4 of them are yt-download clones lol
(assuming with necessary modifications)

https://github.com/trending/python?sinc ... ge_code=en

Github is owned by M$, I wonder If they couldn't have fought for it...

I think that's a valid question especially considering there have been reports that the documents do not constitute a legitimate DMCA take down: https://twitter.com/xor/status/1319738279772770308.

Sparky wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:04 am Github is owned by M$, I wonder If they couldn't have fought for it...

MS is member of RIAA though...

This article provides more details on an analysis of the request as it was acted on my MS/GitHub:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201 ... oved.shtml

I don't understand why people think it's okay to record copyrighted material from YouTube. It's stealing unless you're choosing Public Domain, Copyleft or Creative Commons material. You are stealing from songwriters and artists (among others) who are paid by each view/stream. How would you feel if part or all of your income was stolen?

jordansc wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 6:34 pm I don't understand why people think it's okay to download copyrighted material from YouTube. It's stealing unless you're choosing Public Domain, Copyleft or Creative Commons material. You are stealing from songwriters and artists (among others) who are paid by each view. How would you feel if part or all of your income was stolen?

You are assuming the worst case scenario.
I give my right for people to access my info, and yes, I do have content on YT.