Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by romanoderoma on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:08PM
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I would counter argue that if you are able to use youtube-dl you can explore the cache
The opposite cannot be taken for granted
But usually someone with very little technical knowledge can find files on their hard disks
It requires more than that to be able to run youtube-dl from the shell
The technical argument is even weaker, there are dozens of browser extensions that inject a "download video" button in video on demand websites
Video downloader professional has over 230k users, it can't download YouTube videos anymore because Chrome blocked it, because Chrome and YouTube are Google's and they don't care if you download videos, they only care about their videos, that show their ads, that make their money
youtube-dl serves a niche, a tiny one
What RIAA is doing is scaring people off from even trying, because the truth is that the real money is on mobile where youtube-dl doesn't exists...
BTW youtube-dl is a f*ng good piece of software, it should be praised not blocked
The opposite cannot be taken for granted
But usually someone with very little technical knowledge can find files on their hard disks
It requires more than that to be able to run youtube-dl from the shell
The technical argument is even weaker, there are dozens of browser extensions that inject a "download video" button in video on demand websites
Video downloader professional has over 230k users, it can't download YouTube videos anymore because Chrome blocked it, because Chrome and YouTube are Google's and they don't care if you download videos, they only care about their videos, that show their ads, that make their money
youtube-dl serves a niche, a tiny one
What RIAA is doing is scaring people off from even trying, because the truth is that the real money is on mobile where youtube-dl doesn't exists...
BTW youtube-dl is a f*ng good piece of software, it should be praised not blocked
Meanwhile people will keep using JDownloader