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

Who was it that bought github again? I'm getting really tired of free programs and firefox addons being killed off in the name of giving companies more control.

When I browsed in 2008 there were so many interesting addons and direct solutions for problems like youtube layouts, downloading videos and music, blocking annoying ads.

Fastforward to 2020,
-Adblockers I used to trust now have default whitelists going against their original purpose
-Old diverse Firefox addons were purged and broken by the software revision and mysteriously most were not replaced.
-Rom sites that act as history museums for games out of print are being shut down so companies can start charging full price on a new system
 
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YTV In the 90s said:
Who was it that bought github again? I'm getting really tired of free programs and firefox addons being killed off in the name of giving companies more control.
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Apparently Microsoft (someone correct me if i'm wrong)

YTV In the 90s said:
Fastforward to 2020,
-Adblockers I used to trust now have default whitelists going against their original purpose
-Old diverse Firefox addons were purged and broken by the software revision and mysteriously most were not replaced.
-Rom sites that act as history museums for games out of print are being shut down so companies can start charging full price on a new system
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Someone should make a resume of the past 5 years of internet's happenings. It would be fun to see, and we will get a lot of war's flashbacks. (SOPA, Megaupload, North America doing shit, Wikileaks, hackers, viruses, ramsonware, Nintendo, Java&Flash)

Nintendo with the rom sites's shutdown was a tragedy beyond words, I used to lurk some page that I don't quite remember its name, I think it was french, and it had got a section dedicated to romhacks. That is gone too.
That section didn't contain patches, but the rom with the patch applied, also porn hacks in another section :suffering:
I still remember downloading one of those without knowing what "hentai" meant. 🤡:deagleleft:
To lost of a lot of hacks of a lot of games that you wouldn't even imagine that exists made me sad for a long time.
I should make my own collection of roms of snes, nes, mame, neogeo and so on, a lot of them are below 100MB and I have got space. Without selecting, just downloading in bulk, dunno why I still don't use some of my time to do that, there are retro games that are interesting beyond belief.

Going back to the thread; There isn't any news from Github or RIAA yet?
 
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Poasting illegal imagery
View attachment 1683824View attachment 1683825

https://tw.tinf.io/GalacticFurball/status/1319765986791157761 | https://archive.md/dXdvQ

depends on:
curl, imagemagick

Bash: 
curl https://archive.md/dXdvQ/c58b55674ef876f8b78d02c30a685561b6376981.png --output 01.png && \
curl https://archive.md/dXdvQ/4591a5caa74058c0ae18d71b5cc40ea41a6ea496.png --output 02.png; \
convert -depth 8 01.png rgb:ytdl01.part; \
convert -depth 8 02.png rgb:ytdl02.part; \
cat ytdl01.part ytdl02.part > youtube-dl2020.09.20.tar.gz; \
rm ytdl01.part ytdl02.part; \
clear; \
print 'sha256 checksum: \n'; \
sha256sum youtube-dl2020.09.20.tar.gz


Bash: 
Original file:
67fb9bfa30f5b8f06227c478a8a6ed04af1f97ad4e81dd7e2ce518df3e275391

With 59 extra 0 bytes (from conversion process):
14c9cf8d4ac2b44c0642de09fc3df22cf7f99e553079b8ecc65a54292a85ca82
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Why stop at still images?


depends on:
curl, ffmpeg

Bash: 
curl https://no-cookie.kiwifarms.net/data/video/1687/1687002-62de689345bb1889ee4473b739a26a12.mp4 --output yt_dl.mp4; \
ffmpeg -i yt_dl.mp4 -vf scale=120:-1,eq=contrast=10 -sws_flags neighbor -pix_fmt monob -map_metadata -1 -ss 00:00:00.04 -f rawvideo youtube-dl2020.09.20.tar.gz; \
clear; \
print 'sha256 checksum: \n'; \
sha256sum youtube-dl2020.09.20.tar.gz

Bash: 
1787bbd7892cad109c7462da0c6d1fd40eb03397de1d34559973eb3482e65fa7
 
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Free Dick Pills said:
Why stop at still images?

View attachment 1687422

depends on:
curl, ffmpeg

Bash: 
curl https://no-cookie.kiwifarms.net/data/video/1687/1687002-62de689345bb1889ee4473b739a26a12.mp4 --output yt_dl.mp4; \
ffmpeg -i yt_dl.mp4 -vf scale=120:-1,eq=contrast=10 -sws_flags neighbor -pix_fmt monob -map_metadata -1 -ss 00:00:00.04 -f rawvideo youtube-dl2020.09.20.tar.gz; \
clear; \
print 'sha256 checksum: \n'; \
sha256sum youtube-dl2020.09.20.tar.gz

Bash: 
1787bbd7892cad109c7462da0c6d1fd40eb03397de1d34559973eb3482e65fa7
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Based, just added to OP with some tweaks
 
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Ahhh yes, just like banning a tool in fear of using it for a possibly nefarious intent. Where have I seen this before?
Some gun control meme I guess.PNG
 
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Links to copyrighted content are not infringing under US case law. Perfect 10., Inc vs Amazon.com, Inc.

DMCA notices are specifically for informing 3rd parties that they are hosting content that infringes your copyright. "This can be used to infringe my copyright" isn't the same thing at all.
 
fat ugly sped said:
Links to copyrighted content are not infringing under US case law. Perfect 10., Inc vs Amazon.com, Inc.
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It's unsafe to generalize from a case with a very specific fact pattern that there is a rule that a link can never be infringing.

DMCA notices are specifically for informing 3rd parties that they are hosting content that infringes your copyright. "This can be used to infringe my copyright" isn't the same thing at all.
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This isn't a DMCA notification under the takedown provision, although it mimics the form of one. It is a notice of violation of the anti-circumvention provisions at 17 USC §§1201(a)(2) and 1201(b)(1) and cites those statutes, not 17 U.S.C. § 512.
 
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AnOminous said:
This isn't a DMCA notification under the takedown provision, although it mimics the form of one. It is a notice of violation of the anti-circumvention provisions at 17 USC §§1201(a)(2) and 1201(b)(1) and cites those statutes, not 17 U.S.C. § 512.
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Okay, so it was taken down by GitHub because some legal person became aware of the facts alleged by the RIAA. And since the letter builds a paper trail, now if they leave it up they're be knowingly violating the anti-circumvention parts of the DMCA.

This is bad news for youtube-dl staying on GitHub, since there's no "you can put it back up and the party alleging infringement has to sue the person uploading it" section for anti-circumvention.
 
fat ugly sped said:
Okay, so it was taken down by GitHub because some legal person became aware of the facts alleged by the RIAA. And since the letter builds a paper trail, now if they leave it up they're be knowingly violating the anti-circumvention parts of the DMCA.

This is bad news for youtube-dl staying on GitHub, since there's no "you can put it back up and the party alleging infringement has to sue the person uploading it" section for anti-circumvention.
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I'd say they should try it anyway. If the RIAA can issue something acting in every way like a DMCA notification while citing a different part of the law, demanding a takedown, then the contrary should be true.
 
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programmers who work with python should pledge to contribute just to spite the RIAA. I will
 
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New article up at torrentfreak on the current state of the situation:

RIAA’s YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub’s CEO​

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Irc Chatlog of CEO attempt contact of youtube-dl devs

Glad the GitHub CEO is upset and getting involved!
I love youtube-dl and have gotten a couple bugfix commits into the codebase(nothing to do with the RIAA notice spots). 🔥The RIAA can burn🔥.
 
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kiwifarmsfan1 said:
🔥The RIAA can burn🔥.
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They are leeches as is similar orgs all over the world. I have discovered so much music through piracy and I think many more people than me have the experience of "this is really good, is this a genre?" where a pirated album breaks open a new door.

With piracy I really believe that the low-end have risen, small bands can tour with less risk than before, while the top mega-superstars might have lost some money and who gives a shit about that.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
They are leeches as is similar orgs all over the world. I have discovered so much music through piracy and I think many more people than me have the experience of "this is really good, is this a genre?" where a pirated album breaks open a new door.

With piracy I really believe that the low-end have risen, small bands can tour with less risk than before, while the top mega-superstars might have lost some money and who gives a shit about that.
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Indeed, it's pocket exchange for the top ones
 
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