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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by chabad360 on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:40PM (#24873051)
IANAL, but regardless, according to RIAA, youtube-dl is circumventing the "DRM" built into YouTube, and therefore they're violating anti-circumvention parts of the DMCA. Therefore a DMCA claim can suffice to take it down.

Perhaps if youtube-dl used different examples (i.e. videos not protected by anti-circumvention) perhaps they could have avoided this.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by josteink on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:17PM (#24873568)
Incorrect. DRMed YouTube-content cannot be downloaded using YouTube-dl. Only regular content.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by saddlerustle on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:28PM (#24875496)
Videos with obfuscated request signatures can be downloaded by youtube-dl. A german court ruled this is an effective technological protection measure.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by wang_li on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:13PM (#24876083)
A German court sets no precedent in US law.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by fireattack on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:59PM (#24874107)
> according to RIAA, youtube-dl is circumventing the "DRM"

I didn't find any mention of "DRM" or "Digital rights management" on the page. Can you be more specific?

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