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

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By the way, links to copyrighted content weren't actually in the README at any point, only in the automated tests.

The reason that those tests had to link to the copyrighted content they did is that some youtube videos have extra levels of """controls""", usually the ones with VEVO and other asinine embellishments on them. The module has to do some extra song and dance work to pull the video out (thanks to earlier lawfare from the music industry against youtube), so there is no un-copyrighted video they could test against.
 
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Tovarisz said:
Fuck the music industry and all of it's manufactured shit waves along with it's performers.

That fucking industry is responsible for so much damage to the internet and so many stupid laws it's incomprehensible how much I despise them, they can't fade into complete irrelevancy fast enough.
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Agreed. Remember when WMG (Warner Music group) kept fucking with everyone's videos on YouTube in it's early days for even using music in their videos (whether it was regular shit or anything anime related?
Shit like this still goes on today, except the biggest offender that I've personally come across is UMG (Universal Music Group). For some assinine reason, sites like SoundCloud gave these fuckers the keys to the kingdom to have free control on what they can take down and a bunch of artists (including myself) got fucked over for using even small portions of licensed songs for remixes. The channel I used to have on SoundCloud was very tiny too (like double-digits followers numbers), but rather than go through a battle I knew i wasn't going to win, I just decided to nuke it instead. This was like 5 or more years ago, I'm sure it's gotten worse over the years.
 
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Yes, because I want to pay $10 for that "Hit single" that I can only use on a specific music app while connected to the internet and can't use anywhere else,
or go to Spotify or YouTube where these same big label artists get paid pennies on the dollar for their work and get my data mined.

Yes, trying to kill an open source direct downloader is surely going to solve the alleged intellectual property infringement problem.
It's like ShadowPlay or OBS don't exist and couldn't be used for the exact same purpose.

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Ever since around February 2020, I haven't been able to get the Windows Command line version of youtube-dl.exe to update with -U.
Is there a fix for this? I've re-downloaded the executable to the latest version and it's the only version of youtube-dl I have on my hard disk at the moment.
 
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It could either be a file permissions problem or a certificate problem. Try doing `youtube-dl -U --no-check-certificate`
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Not sure that's a good idea though, you don't really want to run unsigned code from the Internet, do you? Anyway, I'm not sure updating would work at all anymore, as the Github is down. What would there be to update to anyway, even if it did work?
 
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karz said:
Probably moreso because of the DMCA takedown I still get a return of
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ERROR: can't find the current version. Please try again later.
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I could be mistaken, but shouldn't you be using "youtube-dl.exe -U" and not just "youtube-dl -U"?

Wait, actually are you using Windows or Linux?
 
Is there any legal precedence for this at all? You can straight up record tv shows into a box sold by the cable company, and that's fine, as others have said. Ripping ISO/roms from your copies of games you own physically is even a grey area, and emulation itself is legal as proven by the "Bleem!" court case. The fuck is wrong with the music industry?
 
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Vecr said:
Not sure that's a good idea though, you don't really want to run unsigned code from the Internet, do you? Anyway, I'm not sure updating would work at all anymore, as the Github is down. What would there be to update to anyway, even if it did work?
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Not related to code signing. It's bypassing the SSL cert check which can fail on Windows because of reasons.
karz said:
Probably moreso because of the DMCA takedown I still get a return of
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Yup, just checked and it's trying to get the build from github.com
Toolbox said:
The fuck is wrong with the music industry?
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CONSPIRACY HAT ON

They're doing it right before an election to prevent Kiwi archivers from saving all the juicy intel
 
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ditto said:
Not related to code signing. It's bypassing the SSL cert check which can fail on Windows because of reasons.
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I think that *is* the only "code signing" thing (not really the best, but it's something) though, unless they added a PGP signature thing on top since I last checked. Your best bet, I'd say, is to run the Arch Linux version in WSL2, if you have that set up.
 
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Vecr said:
I think that *is* the only "code signing" thing (not really the best, but it's something) though, unless they added a PGP signature thing on top since I last checked. Your best bet, I'd say, is to run the Arch Linux version in WSL2, if you have that set up.
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To be extra paranoid, visit github.com in the browser, and if that succeeds then connecting with --no-check-certificate will be fine. Windows and macOS have their own code signing things that are unrelated.

For any Python users does `pip3 install youtube-dl` still work?
 
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Agreed. Remember when WMG (Warner Music group) kept fucking with everyone's videos on YouTube in it's early days for even using music in their videos (whether it was regular shit or anything anime related?
Shit like this still goes on today, except the biggest offender that I've personally come across is UMG (Universal Music Group). For some assinine reason, sites like SoundCloud gave these fuckers the keys to the kingdom to have free control on what they can take down and a bunch of artists (including myself) got fucked over for using even small portions of licensed songs for remixes. The channel I used to have on SoundCloud was very tiny too (like double-digits followers numbers), but rather than go through a battle I knew i wasn't going to win, I just decided to nuke it instead. This was like 5 or more years ago, I'm sure it's gotten worse over the years.
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God, he sounds so young and cancer free in that video.
 
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