youtube-dl DMCA'd by the RIAA - RIAA and MPAA are on a mass takedown spree

[Shaka Brah]

What are their Critical Race Theory policies?

They made a big show about banning all language on git that might offend people based on racial reasons, except for anti-white slurs. Then they removed "Master" and "Slave" branch names with big fanfare and patting themselves on the back, only to ban everyone who disagreed with the changes. They also have one of those retarded new codes of conduct.

 

[Least Concern]

There are like a dozen free git hosting services with similar features.

There are also like a dozen microblogging services with the same features as Twitter, but still, everyone uses Twitter because everyone uses Twitter. GitHub is familiar and pretty much everyone who uses Git in some form (and isn't some die-hard FOSS partisan like the toepicker) has an account there already. It's very hard to overcome that kind of momentum.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

It is absolutely fucking obvious that youtube-dl has as its primary purposes completely noninfringing uses, such as we do here. It has a lot more to do with providing permanent, historical records of things that many people would prefer to hide after their stupidity becoming public becomes embarrassing to them.

Honestly if we ever end up in a situation with bloody streetside massacres, the absolute scum involved with the RIAA and its activities should be cowering in fear in their gated communities, lest they end up encountering a justifiably enraged population.

What would be even stopping said population from finding a way into those communities? Get enough people and those gates aren't going to hold forever.

 

[Sage In All Fields]

Why does this tool gets to be taken down? while out there exist plenty of these tools for the same damn purpose?!?!?

Because this is the biggest one and it's the one alot of youtube download websites depend on to function

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

From what I can tell, I have a sense that if something like this can happen, it makes me think that YouTube might go under soon. It’ll be getting to the point that many clone like “youtube-dl” websites will be then taken off the web due to copyright infringement or lawsuit, kind of like how Nintendo of Japan did the same to emulators who have stored data of old Nintendo games that were pirated.

But yeah, good on GitHub for this. Hopefully this is a precedent for how we treat Internet laws in the future.

 

[Bongocat]

Or they want to regain good PR for GitHub after their Critical Race Theory policies pissed off a lot of developers who use the service.

Is there a single software group on the planet that (openly) opposes critical race theory?

 

[Kosher Dill]

Is there a single software group on the planet that (openly) opposes critical race theory?

I think the best you can hope for is one that doesn't officially write it into policy.

 

[Shaka Brah]

Is there a single software group on the planet that (openly) opposes critical race theory?

I have absolutely no idea.

 

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Is there a single software group on the planet that (openly) opposes critical race theory?

I'm sure if most suckless developers were asked about it, they would probably lose their shit.

 

[The Fool]

Is there a single software group on the planet that (openly) opposes critical race theory?

Does TempleOS count?

 

[Haramburger]

Honestly if we ever end up in a situation with bloody streetside massacres, the absolute scum involved with the RIAA and its activities should be cowering in fear in their gated communities, lest they end up encountering a justifiably enraged population.

Going after copyright fags with violence is probably not a natural thought during an apocalypse event, but I'll put it on my boogaloo to-do list in this moment of clarity.

Look at the Open Source Software community watch thread for more info on the dumb stuff they've been up to lately.

I want to fight for open-source software, but I don't want to have to wear a dress and makeup to do it.

 

[Hal]

get fucked RIAA

 

[The Fool]

I want to fight for open-source software, but I don't want to have to wear a dress and makeup to do it.

I've fully embraced proprietary software at this point. It's actually a bonus for me, really.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Rare to see a tech company actually doing something pro-user these days

Right?
It's almost like all of Silicon Valley actively hates their user base.

 

[ScatmansWorld]

We also probably shouldn't forget about how they took down the C+= project, which didn't even involve a DMCA or other legal takedown notice.
They'll protect you if you have a benign project, they'll shun you if you have Illegal Opinions.

I’ve never heard of C+=. What’s it about and why was it taken off?

 

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I’ve never heard of C+=. What’s it about and why was it taken off?

It's a lame meme that Github banned. The creators unironically used the term 'feminazi'.

 

[Margo Martindale]

Right?
It's almost like all of Silicon Valley actively hates their user base.

They gotta suck that VC investor dick

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

One thing that's always bugged me is this oft repeated idea that it's actively illegal to use a 3rd party program to download YouTube videos. And yet, no matter how often it's repeated I've never once seen someone cite the actual law that would be broken. Sure you could say it's copyright violation, but then wouldn't that make it solely the business of the copyright holder and app provider, not YouTube?
Because here's a fact, YouTube willingly and freely streams content to your PC. Your PC can be made to cache YouTube videos as they're being played. Hell, I used to have an app on my phone that did just that, it would save the data from any video being streamed as that video's original format. And while YouTube didn't LIKE it there was legally nothing they could fucking do except ban the app from the Play store.

So is there any merit to this idea that it's actually illegal to download videos from YouTube and not just a violation of their ToS (which, considering you can download the videos without an account, you never actually agreed to) or are there just too many faggots repeating something they heard without any basis in reality?

 

[tuka]

So is there any merit to this idea that it's actually illegal to download videos from YouTube and not just a violation of their ToS (which, considering you can download the videos without an account, you never actually agreed to) or are there just too many faggots repeating something they heard without any basis in reality?

There's plenty of merit to de jure stream/download distinction. Forget what goes behind the scenes, what is important is "common sense" normie perspective - streaming out of the box doesn't allow you to save content (without "circumvention tools"). You can sperg all hell and back that devtools are "circumvention tool" on par with ytdl, but such arguments is just splitting hairs - you're arguing something that 99% of people have no idea about and won't use, astronomical outlier in grand scheme of things. Welcome to the normie internet.

This is part why google actively prevents ytdl apps on store - so as to not be labelled as complicit, but also to vendor-lock you into yt red and what not. This is one thing the big boy platforms don't challenge in their freedumz virtue signalling - copyright lobby stuff that actually benefits their market position. This has dim consequences for stuff like archive.XX sites, or even screencaps - all that is technically copyright violation under same provision as using ytdl whenever robots.txt is not honored.

 

[theshitposter]

Is there a single software group on the planet that (openly) opposes critical race theory?

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