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

[Rozzy]

Couldn't Youtube break everything on their end though and make the seeds useless

YouTube could use DRM and that would put an end to most downloads except for screen capture.

 

[Jump]

Use Jdownloader2, it captures copying the link even.

Pros: easy to use, made in Java so it works on all platforms, lots of options for youtube like culling 2160p VP9.

Cons: Made in Java, made by german Linux spergs, there's some optional pay shit I don't understand and it's probably meant for porn.

Thanks I downloaded it but the JAVA thing is a fucking killer.
It takes no lie 45 seconds just the load the gui and after that the computer runs like dogshit. It does look like a handy tool for sites that need logins though. Will keep.

youtube-dl is great because it takes nothing to use and I always have a terminal open anyways. If a video seemed interesting or useful 2 seconds to cut and past it in to the terminal and then move on.
I did manage to update it from their website but the -U function is broken so its going to be a song and dance everytime I need to update it. And now all those other installs out there are orphaned.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

Are there any strictly technical limitations that don't allow git to operate over a tor hidden service? I realize this is not a feasible solution to the issue for various reasons, but I've never seen it mentioned or run across a .onion git server.

 

[gh0stzero]

DMCA me and I'd have to eat shit.

Come on Null its not like its the first time

 

[Thumb Butler]

Thanks I downloaded it but the JAVA thing is a fucking killer.
It takes no lie 45 seconds just the load the gui and after that the computer runs like dogshit. It does look like a handy tool for sites that need logins though. Will keep.

youtube-dl is great because it takes nothing to use and I always have a terminal open anyways. If a video seemed interesting or useful 2 seconds to cut and past it in to the terminal and then move on.
I did manage to update it from their website but the -U function is broken so its going to be a song and dance everytime I need to update it. And now all those other installs out there are orphaned.

Jdownloader2 is the best. Saving prolapse porn from Pornhub is now a breeze.

 

[R. J. MacReady]

maybe this but have no fucking clue. https://git-annex.branchable.com/

 

[Blood Bath & Beyond]

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it yet, but downloads are up again on the official youtube-dl.org through their own directory.

 

[Personal Jesus]

It's all good so far, downloaded a few videos on Y-DL after the DMCA was handed. Another option to download videos is uGet, an open source download manager, just like Jdownloader but lighter and ad-free.

 

[Yotsubaaa]

If you'd like the commit history you can export it from here: https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/youtube-dl/

Also great discussion at hackernews is going on about this, 3 pages so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911

EDIT 3: Looks like @Yotsubaaa cloned it onto git.kiwifarms.net: https://git.kiwifarms.net/Yotsubaaa/youtube-dl - although it lacks the full commit history.

Also @SageInAllFields

I've updated the KiwiGit repo with all of the history from that q3k/youtube-dl repo, and I've kept the 'no history' stuff I got from the PyPI as its own separate branch. It was an interesting learning experience actually, I've never had to do something like that in git before.

Spoiler: Git commands I used for the curious

git remote add q3k/youtube-dl http://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/youtube-dl
git fetch q3k/youtube-dl
git reset --hard q3k/youtube-dl/master
git push -f origin master

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

1984 was supposed to be warning not a guide!

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

Never buy what you can borrow;
Never borrow what you can steal.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Tinfoil hat time: Section 230 is also looking a bit iffy right now. Coincidence that the RIAA is wanting to shut down personal archiving?

 

[DumbDude42]

My speakers and video card do that too. I could literally just screen record the same shit. Are they going to DMCA OBS too?

if they could, these people would sue fucking intel because they make hardware that can be used to pirate music lol

 

[No Shot Bucko]

They actually asking to taking down one of many tools to download youtube videos ?!?!?!

i mean if this thing coulda download private videos then i maybe would understand why they trying to take it down. but if this is not tampering with private/unlisted videos from users then it shouldn't be a damn big deal to actually take it down lmao!

 

[attractive_pneumonia]

Also @SageInAllFields

I've updated the KiwiGit repo with all of the history from that q3k/youtube-dl repo, and I've kept the 'no history' stuff I got from the PyPI as its own separate branch. It was an interesting learning experience actually, I've never had to do something like that in git before.

Spoiler: Git commands I used for the curious

git remote add q3k/youtube-dl http://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/youtube-dl
git fetch q3k/youtube-dl
git reset --hard q3k/youtube-dl/master
git push -f origin master

That isn't the youtube-dl repo, that is youtube-dlc which is a fork that essentially mass accepted the 700 or so outstanding pull requests. I have an actual clone of the official project with the git headers. dstfw was the last person to make a commit on the official youtube-dl project.

Edit: Actually I'm an idiot, the commits line up to my repo.

 

[cryptidfuck]

Never buy what you can borrow;
Never borrow what you can steal.

was about to say this exact thing XD

 

[Make Anime Illegal]

Someone needs to finally invent a technology that will actually destroy the music industry, not just one that the RIAA says will destroy the music industry.

 

[The Fool]

Use Jdownloader2, it captures copying the link even.

Pros: easy to use, made in Java so it works on all platforms, lots of options for youtube like culling 2160p VP9.

Cons: Made in Java, made by german Linux spergs, there's some optional pay shit I don't understand and it's probably meant for porn.

Uh, why that retarded shit instead of ClipGrab?

 

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Jdownloader2 is the best. Saving prolapse porn from Pornhub is now a breeze.

I mean, you could do that in youtube-dl too obviously. But if you want to download it in 240p, who wants to figure out those command line options?

Are there any strictly technical limitations that don't allow git to operate over a tor hidden service? I realize this is not a feasible solution to the issue for various reasons, but I've never seen it mentioned or run across a .onion git server.

Has been done apparently but people seem to suggest it's annoying to configure on the client side? As someone who finds that a deeply annoying process even without Tor involved, that's a little concerning.

is it possible to have a hidden git service?

Just like we have websites ending in .onion , can we have a git server running on Tor ? Theoretically it should be possible as git could be thought of as an FTP server. Has somebody done it and sha...

tor.stackexchange.com

IPFS supposedly has some Git functionality built in, but it seems intended to be used with static (i.e. unchanging) repositories. Which is.. kind of a waste of time.

The KeyBase app allows Git within teams set up on there. If the ytdl team can't get any backing from the EFF or similar, it would be interesting if they gave that solution a go. Would test the pro-privacy/security bonafides of Zoom, anyway.

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

Someone needs to finally invent a technology that will actually destroy the music industry, not just one that the RIAA says will destroy the music industry.

They did: it's called 'autotune'.