YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by cesarb on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:53PM (#24873241)

> Let's issue a takedown for the GNU Project while we're at it because I could use wget to do the same thing. In fact, I could write my own program to illegally download content, so we better just get rid of computers altogether.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html (1997)

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by ev1 on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:36PM (#24873822)

I think the argument here is that explicitly, you can't with wget. youtube-dl specifically has circumventions for access controls for things like encrypted HLS, YouTube's ciphered player, etc.

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