YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by gforz on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:32PM (#24875024)

Curious to know if it was not possible for YouTube-dl to create content which was ‘similar’ to the infringing ones & upload it on YouTube for their test cases?

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by nullc on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:14PM (#24875387)

AFAIK the features they're testing are only available to specific partners. I can't be sure, but it isn't obvious how they could go about doing this.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by p2detar on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:11PM (#24875370)

Or they could have had the YouTube links in another file, not part of the repo, and only download and parse it when tests are run.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by kc-rush2049 on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:17PM (#24875772)

Best thing would be for them to just upload their own test videos with the various formats and test against those.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by foerbert on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:01PM (#24876016)

Most of this comment chain has been about why they couldn't do that. They were testing against special features that are only available to select partners.

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