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

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George Orson Welles said:
Welp we all know what we gotta do, download the source code for all the listed projects and compile them ourselves and keep them somewhere where RIAA won't pull a Napster 2.5.
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Canada. Canadian piracy laws are easily circumvented and most of these complaints are ignored.

As an example, it isn't illegal to mass download and share movies, music, games, or images, but, to sell them is illegal. Recording a movie in the theatre is a crime, but sharing that movie after the fact isn't.
 
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Popcorn Time was targeted in a similar manner by the MPAA, and the operator of the project sent a counter notice and got his repo back.

Now.. that being said.. responding in this manner means that you are disclosing personal information that may previously not have been available to the 'large media conglomerates', so they might just come after that guy with legal harassment.
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I had a bit of a look round at Lumen DB to see if I could figure out who's sending these, whether it's an outside law firm or from RIAA directly. Looks a lot like the wording that RIAA's in-house counsel and various legal VPs have used previously on their bullshit Yehudi form letters, for example on the message below:
The FEC website is a good way to find associates of this criminal organization, but for 'some reason' many of them list RIAA's office address on their campaign contributions. Some guilty consciences there, I would suggest.
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Explore current and historic federal campaign finance data on the new fec.gov. Look at totals and trends, and see how candidates and committees raise and spend money. When you find what you need, export results and save custom links.
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EDIT: Does anyone know if falsely reporting your state of residence on campaign contributions is illegal in the US? I'm looking at this Victoria Evelyn Farinas Sheckler, and like the other RIAA scum she uses the RIAA DC mailing address as her mailing address and 'DC' as her 'State', but other available information suggests she lives in Arlington, VA. I bet there are plenty of others in a similar situation.

I recognize most of these scum probably have second houses, but having a house in VA and an apartment or home in DC proper seems.. unlikely.
EDIT2: I checked with the FEC, this is acceptable practice unfortunately.
 
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Billy Rocker said:
The war on archiving is real.

Then again, github is shit anyways and it's retarded of the RIAA to think that getting rid of their GitHub means getting rid of the source code. Nearly all loonix distros have youtube-dl on their repos anyway.
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youtube-dl's target moves fast. On a few occasions, my distro's cached youtube-dl is out-of-date (sometimes by a few months) and won't download youtube videos. I've had to manually bump the packaged version.

If youtube-dl doesn't find a new home, it's dead, and I'm one step closer to giving up on the internet.
 
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It is not just the examples in the readme, the head coders for good reasons insist on having lots of test links with the title of the media that they lead to that are downloaded in automated tests whenever they makes changes to ensure nothing breaks and to verify behavior. Some of the RIAA music videos cited in the compliant are those links used in tests, so if they change those the RIAA hopefully should be sated.

But that leaves problems down the road for tests other services like for ABC/CBC/NBC which use television shows, and if they go after youtube-dl. So a huge overhaul is probably needed.
 
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cjöcker said:
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For what it's worth:
https://git.kiwifarms.net/Yotsubaaa/youtube-dl

I took the source from the Python PyPI package index that was linked earlier and just uploaded it all without change, so there it is (for now?)

As Null and others have said though, I don't even know how useful this 'mirror' repo is gonna be. I don't plan on maintaining it (I don't have the skillset required to keep up with Youtube's obfuscations anyway), and if Dear Leader wants me to shoah it, it's gone.
 
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Yotsubaaa said:
For what it's worth:
https://git.kiwifarms.net/Yotsubaaa/youtube-dl

I took the source from the Python PyPI package index that was linked earlier and just uploaded it all without change, so there it is (for now?)

As Null and others have said though, I don't even know how useful this 'mirror' repo is gonna be. I don't plan on maintaining it (I don't have the skillset required to keep up with Youtube's obfuscations anyway), and if Dear Leader wants me to shoah it, it's gone.
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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
 
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cecograph said:
youtube-dl's target moves fast. On a few occasions, my distro's cached youtube-dl is out-of-date (sometimes by a few months) and won't download youtube videos. I've had to manually bump the packaged version.

If youtube-dl doesn't find a new home, it's dead, and I'm one step closer to giving up on the internet.
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I always manually update it. I didn't even bother looking in the repo. I find repo versions to be out of date more times than not.
 
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Yotsubaaa said:
For what it's worth:
https://git.kiwifarms.net/Yotsubaaa/youtube-dl

I took the source from the Python PyPI package index that was linked earlier and just uploaded it all without change, so there it is (for now?)

As Null and others have said though, I don't even know how useful this 'mirror' repo is gonna be. I don't plan on maintaining it (I don't have the skillset required to keep up with Youtube's obfuscations anyway), and if Dear Leader wants me to shoah it, it's gone.
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No need to do such a thing, import from PyPI, it's better to push from one of the backup clones, such as https://gitlab.com/serebit/youtube-dl. But effort appreciated.
 
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kiwifarmsfan1 said:
If you'd like the commit history you can export it from here: https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/youtube-dl/
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Karl Franz said:
No need to do such a thing, import from PyPI, it's better to push from one of the backup clones, such as https://gitlab.com/serebit/youtube-dl. But effort appreciated.
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Oh snap, good catch guys. I probably should've spent a little more time looking around for mirrors than I did.

Sam Losco said:
I always manually update it. I didn't even bother looking in the repo. I find repo versions to be out of date more times than not.
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This. In the (meager...) googling I did for any other youtube-dl repos I immediately came across the Debian one:

But given Debian's update philosophy, I don't have too much confidence that their version of youtube-dl is even current enough to work properly.
 
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