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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by boogies on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:47AM (#25113832)
Subtitles are a perfect example of data that any normal browser downloads if you click CC, and can even be ^F'd if you click ‘Show Transcript’ on YouTube, but just happen to be orders of magnitude more useful if you control where they download to. I think you’re proving globular-toast’s point.
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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by bigbubba on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:51AM (#25113880)
Subtitles are not video, so no. And I'd like to see you visit a thousand video pages with an RIAA approved browser and ^F on each of them. Nice joke!
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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by hunter2_ on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:02PM (#25114028)
Why should subtitles and video be considered so discretely? Are subtitles not copyrighted the same way as the audio and video portions of the work?
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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by bigbubba on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:22PM (#25114315)
Beyond subtitles, there is certainly video metadata that youtube might have a claim on but the RIAA does not.
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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by sjy on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:50PM (#25117414)
The principles are essentially the same, but they are discrete copyrights which could be owned by different people.
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