YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by black_puppydog on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:33PM (#24873771)

Your weekly reminder that

1. You should not have your development process on a centralized platform, at least not if you're doing anything that smells of copyright issues

2. If you do host on a centralized platform, have regular, decentralized backups of code and issue tracking.

3. Also, avoid US-centric hosting for this kind of thing. But really, refer to 1.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by marcosdumay on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:15PM (#24874264)

> at least not if you're doing anything that smells of copyright issues

Or lets people communicate. Or broadcasts news. Or can filter messages or news. Or directly applies encryption to anything. Or is related to accounting. Or can be indirectly linked to health services. Or, well, you get the idea.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by a1369209993 on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:25PM (#24875475)

Or in plainer terms: 1. You should not have your development process on a centralized platform, period.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by zanny on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:05AM (#24877094)

I'm a contributor to gallery-dl and it occurs to me this exact same scenario can happen there. So I at least set up a cron job to backup the issues in case it gets trolled. Its the only really problematic part to get taken down from Github.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by frankzander on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:04AM (#24877694)

Thanks ... your tool seems to be the solution for my problem :D

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by stjohnswarts on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:07PM (#24876630)

I'm sure the developers have the whole thing on their local machines and it would be terrible if it was uploaded somewhere in a country that doesn't give a squat about DMCA.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by orthecreedence on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:29PM (#24875503)

Yes, I'm watching https://radicle.xyz/ with great anticipation.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by Deely123123 on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:12PM (#24874837)

Should we count country and government as 'centalized platform'?

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by cblconfederate on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:52PM (#24875648)

there will never be a safe country. The robust option is to mirror them in hostile countries. Divide them and conquer

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