RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by danaris on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @01:26PM (#24909648)

> it would ban any form of scraping

...which many entities would love to do. If it were illegal to extract data any way but through an official API, with a TOS and fees and everything, that would make a bunch of dying business models so much more viable.

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @01:43PM (#24909855)

And kill Google Search. Google can't afford for that precedent to exist.

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by cookiecaper on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:44PM (#24910470)

It already exists and it's used to kill startups every day (including mine). Google gets a pass because they're real special. See Perfect 10 v. Amazon.

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by dredmorbius on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:09AM (#24917797)

Google can afford to legislate a carve-out.

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by rouxz on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:19PM (#24910220)

afaik it is against Google TOS to scrape data from their services e.g. play store but I can't find the evidence now. Some mobile store analytics agencies do it very carefully seizing the risk of their google account being banned forever. Haven't heard the precedents, still.

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by BlueTemplar on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:21AM (#24916473)

ToS aren't laws.

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