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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by paina on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:24PM (#24873655)
Yes, we do need this. I feel that the first step would be to move ytdl to a self hosted repository. But even this has the potential for takedowns.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by actuator on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:30PM (#24873737)
If we rename it and add some open license video as an example instead of music videos, can they still ask for a takedown?
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by godshatter on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:44PM (#24873918)
They should rename it to open-license-content-dl, paste warnings all over the readme about how it should NOT be used to download copyrighted content, post it to github, and see what happens.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by cogburnd02 on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:36PM (#24874488)
> some open license video

Perhaps 'Copying Is Not Theft'[1]?

https://youtu.be/IeTybKL1pM4

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by weaksauce on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:46PM (#24873947)
they could create a youtube channel and upload some test/example videos to that
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