" After hearing both sides, the district court of Hamburg ruled on the matter last week, handing a clear win to the music companies"

The "district court of Hamburg" always sides with music companies.

Germany is worse than the US for these cases. I can't imagine hosting a project like youtube-dl on servers there.

Another German court killed reselling digitally distributed games https://gameslaw.org/german-court-key-selling-infringes-copy...

"key reselling harms consumers and businesses equally"

ew

haha whenever one of these threads come up i claim that i was the first person to write a tool in this category because it was too hard to watch google video (youtube wasnt as popular yet) on my 56k modem.

https://gvdownloader.sourceforge.net/

I updated it a few times, but google became more aggressive as all the freeware vendors started to add it to their catelogs and promote it. it wasnt a game i was prepared to play, although i probably could of made some decent cash from it if i pursued it.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gvdownloader/files/gvdownlo...