YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by nullc on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:01PM (#24874749)

> The example in the README is evidence of this.

it wasn't in the readme, it was in the test suite.

I don't think it would be difficult to argue that downloading the world for the sole purpose of making sure the downloading worked was not an infringement (or, alternatively, was fair use).

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by doomjunky on Saturday October 24, 2020 @05:33PM (#24882115)

I'm in no favour for the RIAA but just imagine. It would be a 300IQ move if that specific pull request was engineered by RIAA themself.

Please pull that test case... Fooled! Now there is a legal reason. Here is the DCMA takedown notice.

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