Re:The RIAA’s attack on YouTube-dl is not a DMCA 512 infring...
by ttt0 on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:09PM
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> It is whether youtube-dl is a tool that enables access to YouTube contents by circumventing a "cipher".
YouTube provides a javascript to decrypt it and youtube-dl just runs it. Unless they are arguing that using a JS interpreter that's not approved by them is circumventing the cipher then no, it's not. And if they are, it's completely insane.
YouTube provides a javascript to decrypt it and youtube-dl just runs it. Unless they are arguing that using a JS interpreter that's not approved by them is circumventing the cipher then no, it's not. And if they are, it's completely insane.