YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by jchw on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:36PM (#24873012)

IANAL but I don't even think DMCA applies. It's not like YouTube-dl is breaking copy protection schemes, at most it is handling anti-abuse schemes. After all, it's not like you can go and bypass Widevine with youtube-dl.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by rmrfstar on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:39PM (#24873045)

Unfortunately, it is making a copy. These guys also fucked up by "marketing" it for use in circumventing such controls. They should have showed how to pull OCW lectures.

(a)(2)(C) is the part. IANAL but that's my take.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by jchw on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:45PM (#24873137)

I can understand why it would seem like circumvention, but one usage of YouTube-dl even with the README invocations is so that you can listen to or watch the media in a personal capacity. Not technically any different from how you might using the actual YouTube client, albeit probably in violation of YouTube's ToS. "Copying" in a legal sense might need a little more rigor. (IANAL either, though, so hell if I know.)

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by zucker42 on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:01AM (#24877076)

What if I use youtube-dl like

  mpv <(youtube-dl youtube.com/video-url)

or similar. Then no permanent copy is made. I agree that they could have been cleverer in their marketing.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by account42 on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:13AM (#24894873)

aka

  mpv https://youtube.com/video-url

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