Fucking pieces of shit. Should not be this angry while drunk at nearly 4 in the night.
But, youtube-dl doesn't have any DRM circumvention. How can they argue that this "circumvents the technological protection measures used by authorized streaming services"?
Lol, laws don't mean anything, its about power, capital has the power, we don't.
The idea is that because YouTube doesn’t have a download button, anything that lets you save content is a circumvention.
It’s bad faith bullshit, intentional misrepresentation of how technology works, but that’s the RIAA’s whole deal.
Edit: If this holds up, and it likely will because the ytdl developers don’t have the means to fight it, it will set an extremely dangerous precedent. Things like
wgetandcurlcould genuinely be at risk.imagine trying to get basic linux commands banned. then again i put nothing above companies these days
Things like wget and curl could genuinely be at risk.
Those would at least have legal backing from the FSF or something.
Not quite - on some videos, the stream URLs sent to the browser are encrypted with an algorithm that can be decrypted just fine in the browser, but takes a fair bit of reverse engineering to make it work in other places. Not defending the RIAA here lol but it's quite a bit more than "doesn't have a download button".
Right? I'm downloading it to my computer when I watch the video in a browser. That's how streaming works. There's no DRM unless you count "mild inconvenience" as a DRM measure.
i would guess it's because they sell youtube a license for streaming, and downloading isn't covered by that or some shit
sure and it's another example of the fundamental contradiction of DRM (all the more glaring when you're trying to use DRM to enforce IP over the wire), which is what I'm getting at
Then i'm confused as to why you decided to reply to me in the first place.
Someone had already said the same thing you did to the OP
Flashbacks to the DeCSS days and illegal primes.
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RIAA must be getting desperate because they're not getting all that concert money right now. First they go after twitch, now this.
Bet Github's new bosses at Microsoft have them take it down.
Edit: nm I guess this is them already taking it down. In that case I’m betting it stays that way
This fucking sucks. Been using this to document certain streamed content for personal use. Luckily still have it installed.
It won't be as collaboratively maintained. It means that any new services won't be part of
youtube-dland instead we'll have to depend on the state of the repo as it was today when it got taken down. Also, any modifications to existing services will breakyoutube-dlas it is right now. Not ideal, just means that people who have coding skills will keep updating their own local copies, but the ones not in the know will have to give up.OK, I stand corrected: this changes a little, because the next place the devs host yt-dl (gitea, self-hosted gitlab somewhere) will probably get a bit less contributions by drive-by github users, but you will definitely not need to maintain your own copy.
The communities are actively organising across gitter, IRC and matrix trying to put together a plan on how to proceed.
The original developers were inactive so it doesn't matter that they don't personally get involved. This is currently in the hands of fairly competent developers. I don't think there's any reason to worry long term.
Even if youtube-dl was wiped off the internet, there are also many other projects that accomplish the same goal that still exist, including Invidious, Second, NewPipeExtractor, LavaPlayer, ytdl-core, and many others that I've forgotten the names of.
I say this not to correct you but only to help you blend in as a native English speaker in case you need to infiltrate the US government
we call it "4 in the morning"
Le feeeze peach, the Great Chinese Firewall. Muh censorship. Lol. I hate the west <3. Go get rid of CP on social media, yk.
Alternative for anyone that wants one not currently being targeted by RIAA: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeExplode
Fucking cunts :angery:
So I hadn't updated to the last released version yet, and sadly updating it through the update command is out of the question currently. I did manage to grab a mirror of the repository as it was before it was taken down, but it's just a bunch of python files. Where can I get the last .exe?
I just grabbed it from the mirrors that have seemingly already been posted in this thread.
pip install -U .in the repo and it should be installed systemwide.
So hosting the repo outside the US would make it safe from DMCA right?
