RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloading Online Videos

Re:RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloadin... by chii on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:30AM (#25005178)

i certainly hope the Streisand effect brings the general public the knowledge that this program exists and proliferate its existence.

Whether the RIAA is acting correctly within the law or not is irrelevant to me. If they are indeed acting correctly within the existing laws, then i would call for civil disobedience against unjust and unfair law.

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Re:RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloadin... by seg_lol on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:52AM (#25005285)

The program is useless w/o updates. Knowledge of it does nothing.

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Re:RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloadin... by ObsoleteNerd on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:57AM (#25007267)

It’s still being updated on their website, just not on GitHub: https://youtube-dl.org/

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Re:RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloadin... by buckminster on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:12PM (#25009190)

It would be super nice if they published a copy of their latest git repository. It doesn't need to be anything fancy. Just a .gz file pushed to the website once a day (or week even) would be great.

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Re:RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloadin... by seg_lol on Friday November 06, 2020 @02:06PM (#25010209)

pip download --no-binary ":all:" youtube-dl

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Re:RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloadin... by buckminster on Saturday November 07, 2020 @09:19AM (#25015199)

Thank you, but I wasn't very clear. What I'd like is a download including the .git directory, not just a snapshot of the latest code.

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Re:RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloadin... by bxk1 on Saturday November 07, 2020 @09:22AM (#25015214)

Currently you can get it from the author's gitlab: https://gitlab.com/dstftw/youtube-dl , i.e. git clone 'https://gitlab.com/dstftw/youtube-dl.git'

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Re:RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloadin... by buckminster on Saturday November 07, 2020 @10:23AM (#25015556)

Thank you! I tried that one a few days ago but it hadn't been updated since the github takedown so I incorrectly assumed development was happening elsewhere.

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Re:RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloadin... by bxk1 on Saturday November 07, 2020 @10:27AM (#25015581)

No, it has all the commits from the latest version, the one released after the github takedown.

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Re:RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloadin... by buckminster on Sunday November 08, 2020 @08:43AM (#25025752)

Thank you.

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Re:RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloadin... by vagrantJin on Friday November 06, 2020 @02:33AM (#25005776)

No its not. For some sites maybe but not for all their supported sites.

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