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

AnOminous said:
It's mainly the labels that lose money. They're taking almost all of the profits while throwing the artist a nickel and then selling the artist on "look they're stealing YOUR money" bullshit.
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The entertainment industries needs to get Blockpilled

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The Fool said:
Did the DeCSS thing even involve the RIAA or was it purely a Sony thing? I'd understand if the RIAA just strongarmed Sony. But also Sony is kind of a prick in itself.
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It was something called the DVD CAA. It was also a number of cases, including a criminal case in Norway (the defendant was acquitted).

Most of the websites about this that are still up are massively Web 1.0.
 
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AnOminous said:
No they didn't. It wasn't removed for a single minute, and its presence on the Internet exploded instantly when they tried. Here's a gallery of them.
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Yes, it was obviously not removed. That's why I put "removed" in quotes.

But here's how they totally removed DeCSS from the internet. Johansen(DVD-Jon) said in November 1999,
"I know very well that they would not win in court, but they could make a big mess out of it. I simply do not have the time, nor money, to go up against these people." He said he decided to pull the link down."
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He was the first to post the DeCSS code on the internet and they got ØKOKRIM(The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime) to arrest him when he was fifteen years old. Going after people like that was the reason for everything seen in that gallery. Why else would a lot of people spend a lot of time doing that?

Here's a timeline of the Johansen shit show:
 
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UnimportantFarmer said:
So easy to use. Just the command line, cd\whatever, then type 'youtube-dl.' I thought it might be complicated, and to be doing a little DOS related thing again is so cool. Dos 3.3 gang.

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You might want to use some flags too. This is my favorite, for just automatically downloading at highest quality. I just alias it.

alias you-dl="youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4'"
 
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AnOminous said:
You might want to use some flags too. This is my favorite, for just automatically downloading at highest quality. I just alias it.

alias you-dl="youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4'"
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That's the one I use the most, I keep a text file with all the most commonly used youtube-dl options. It's so simple to open a terminal and copy-paste a few lines.
 
Also did anyone else's Youtube-dl break today?

RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms & Pirate Sites
These people have lost their minds
The RIAA is ramping up the pressure on a wide range of platforms allegedly involved in music piracy. Two DMCA subpoenas obtained against Cloudflare and Namecheap require the companies to hand over all information they hold on more than 40 torrent sites, streaming portals and YouTube-ripping services. Also included in the mix are several file-hosting platforms.
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garakfan69 said:
That's unnecessary. Youtube-dl already downloads the best available quality by default.
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I think the difference is those options will ensure you end up with an MP4 at the end, whereas if you just run it without any options, you’re liable to end up with a WebM or MKV or some crap - I have no idea how it picks which format to use. It’s all the same to me since I usually use VLC on my phone to listen to the stuff I download and it’ll play just about anything, but in some cases you might need an MP4 specifically.
 
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Least Concern said:
I think the difference is those options will ensure you end up with an MP4 at the end, whereas if you just run it without any options, you’re liable to end up with a WebM or MKV or some crap - I have no idea how it picks which format to use. It’s all the same to me since I usually use VLC on my phone to listen to the stuff I download and it’ll play just about anything, but in some cases you might need an MP4 specifically.
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Yeah, I think it uses MKV by default (you can override this with --merge-output-format). But what's wrong with MKV?
 
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garakfan69 said:
Yeah, I think it uses MKV by default (you can override this with --merge-output-format). But what's wrong with MKV?
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MKV is just a container format that lets you mix and match weird random codecs so it doesn't work in alot of places. It doesn't always encode MKV it just does it as a last resort.
 
For those having issues with youtube videos, for the time being, you can try running it a few times. It seems that youtube is serving several variations of the page, perhaps in an A/B test. youtube-dl will need an update as it is assumed soon google's changes will be served every time instead of a coin flip depending on your region.
 
Condicional said:
Maybe you can share that part of the code "elsewere" just to dodge that bullet.
Like; you host the code in another site that is keep up to date.
You can just grab that code, paste it into the project, and boom, the puzzle is complete. It may be a solution maybe.
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It's not really a solution, though.

We can see here that Microsoft has the potential for a big PR win, at a very low cost relative to their bottom line, by really standing up against RIAA, a group whose favorability ratings must make the KKK look like fireman who rescued a cat from a tree while saving an elderly grandmother having a heart attack. But Mr. Friedman chooses not to. Interesting.
 
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I have a minor sticking point against mp4, because by default it puts vital information about the stream format and structure at the very end of the file, which means that an incomplete file is completely unreadable.

This can partially be mitigated by the ffmpeg options -movflags +faststart which does a second pass after the file is complete to move that information to the beginning of it instead of the end, but I still consider the format broken by default and if ffmpeg was to crash (or the video stream 404s) before finalizing the file all of the information would be lost and the file would be unrecoverable.
 
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Free Dick Pills said:
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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Fucking based

Cohencidentally, after the RIAA took down the Github repo Google has decided to change youtube to break the latest version out in the wild

https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/issues/13#issuecomment-719905256
https://archive.vn/wip/slDUC

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E.g. this video, which ironically contains Youtube CEO Susan WojCWCki being killed, now can't be downloaded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feky-ahvmOk

Code: 
$ youtube-dl --version
2020.09.20

$ youtube-dl -F  feky-ahvmOk
[youtube] feky-ahvmOk: Downloading webpage
[youtube] feky-ahvmOk: Downloading embed webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract JS player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

And of course, I can't update because the RIAA has taken down the repos. Cunts.

Fucking sucks how Google has broken the versions in the wild at just the right time. Almost like the RIAA and Google are colluding or something.

The US needs some trustbusting badly. Otherwise, a conference call by a half dozen CEOs can shut down any news story or software package.

Incidentally look at this

https://twitter.com/gasmanic/status/1320107219866836994
https://archive.vn/dcwka
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