XCancel also down, at least for time being

Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by notpushkin on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:03AM (#49445923)

Google has sent a cease and desist letter to youtube-dl. It didn’t work out well.

And of course, Google is an AI company, too.

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Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by account42 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:34AM (#49446212)

Wasn't it a DMCA takedown actually?

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Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by notpushkin on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:55PM (#49472336)

There are probably some legal differences (IANAL), but isn’t the idea basically the same as in C&D?

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Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by gamer191 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @09:03AM (#49448404)

It was the RIAA, not Google

It failed because it didn’t make any technical sense. The RIAA was trying to argue that YouTube’s proof-of-work JavaScript challenges were some kind of DRM and by running JavaScript YouTube-dl was circumventing DRM

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