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

Claude Speed · Nov 5, 2020

There's still alot of websites which let you download videos as either mp3 or mp4.

Nov 5, 2020

ClaudeSpeed said:
There's still alot of websites which let you download videos as either mp3 or mp4.

99% of those websites use youtube-dl at the backend, and the point of this action is not to simply take youtube-dl off Github. It's to set a precedent where RIAA can attack anyone who hosts the development repo, anyone who hosts a distribution package for it, anyone who uses the software as part of a service provided by their website.

(All of that also applies to fundamentally similar projects like NewPipe and JDownloader)

Youtube-DL on GitHub is just the first target.

Temporal Refugee · Nov 6, 2020

3119967d0c said:
99% of those websites use youtube-dl at the backend, and the point of this action is not to simply take youtube-dl off Github. It's to set a precedent where RIAA can attack anyone who hosts the development repo, anyone who hosts a distribution package for it, anyone who uses the software as part of a service provided by their website.

(All of that also applies to fundamentally similar projects like NewPipe and JDownloader)

Youtube-DL on GitHub is just the first target.

We need a distributed repo system using something like BitTorrent. Also, are Tor based repos a thing yet?

Sage In All Fields · Nov 6, 2020

Razel said:
We need a distributed repo system using something like BitTorrent. Also, are Tor based repos a thing yet?

Git is already distributed... What we need is a way to have issues and pull request management be distributed too. Yeah you can use Git with Tor.

Kosher Dill · Nov 6, 2020

Razel said:
We need a distributed repo system using something like BitTorrent.

Sounds like a... blockchain. *yawn*

I bet you could rig something up on Ethereum with smart contracts to handle all the permissioning, pull request approval, and merging. You'd just have an Ethereum address rather than a "user ID".
But where would the actual repo data live? I imagine you'd just want the state of the system, hashes, and so forth to go on the blockchain.

cecograph · Nov 6, 2020

Least Concern said:
What's the point of telnetting into localhost?

If you run vlc with "vlc -I rc --rc-host", you can give it a host and port, and it will listen for TCP connections and present a simple cli. I set the host to localhost, and connect with telnet. If I lose the connection, my music keeps playing, and I can connect again.

See https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Alternative_Interfaces/#RC.2C_Telnet

Agent Abe Caprine · Nov 7, 2020

HumanHive said:
My God, it’s all toilet sounds.

The song of our civilization.

cecograph · Nov 7, 2020

Sage In All Fields said:
Git is already distributed... What we need is a way to have issues and pull request management be distributed too. Yeah you can use Git with Tor.

If you've got a relatively small project and you want to accept PRs, you just need to host the repository somewhere on a website you control with an email address you control. Receive bug reports by email, and publish the ones you care about on the site. Receive patches and pull requests by email. A pull request is just an email from someone saying "here's my remote with a clone of your repo. Please review my changes and pull from it."

If the project gets big enough, set up a mailing list for issues and PRs.

As I understand, this is how Linux itself is developed. And it's way harder to take this down than a Github repo. It'll never happen though, because this approach is too ancient and gay. It's not even Web 2.0.

I'd be interested in anyone's experience with Fossil, which apparently manages issues as part of the VCS.

AnOminous · Nov 7, 2020

cecograph said:
As I understand, this is how Linux itself is developed. And it's way harder to take this down than a Github repo. It'll never happen though, because this approach is too ancient and gay. It's not even Web 2.0.

It's actually ancient and completely heterosexual. There are reasons things were done this way in the past and the reasons haven't changed. Idiots just decided we needed new-fangled bullshit that has no actual purpose.

Smaug's Smokey Hole · Nov 7, 2020

3119967d0c said:
If you were heterosexual you would use MPD and listen to solely pre-1990s country music.

It would have to be before the CD came along for country music because country CD is gay. So many studio tapes weren't kept around that it was common to re-record instead of remaster classic albums for CD like they did with most things.

Nov 9, 2020

Looks like Sergey is keeping at least the release versions of the source up to date on GitLab. Not using the issue tracking there or anything as far as I can see.

https://gitlab.com/dstftw/youtube-dl

Aidan · Nov 10, 2020

youtube-dl not working at all for anyone else when trying to do channel pulls? Currently running version 2020.11.01.1 and when I try to download channels it just says the playlist (channel) is zero videos long.
Haven't done a lot of testing to see if this is all playlists or specific to channels, if I do I will update this post saying what it appears to be.

Sage In All Fields · Nov 10, 2020

Aidan said:
youtube-dl not working at all for anyone else when trying to do channel pulls? Currently running version 2020.11.01.1 and when I try to download channels it just says the playlist (channel) is zero videos long.
Haven't done a lot of testing to see if this is all playlists or specific to channels, if I do I will update this post saying what it appears to be.

Yeah channel pulls are broken for me too

byuu · Nov 10, 2020

Aidan said:
youtube-dl not working at all for anyone else when trying to do channel pulls? Currently running version 2020.11.01.1 and when I try to download channels it just says the playlist (channel) is zero videos long.
Haven't done a lot of testing to see if this is all playlists or specific to channels, if I do I will update this post saying what it appears to be.

Sounds like the same issue I had with downloading playlists.
Using yt-dlc with this patch: https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/pull/150 fixed it for me.

kiwifarmsfan1 · Nov 12, 2020

The main author of youtube-dl has released a new update.

Markdown (GitHub flavored):

version 2020.11.12

Extractors
* [youtube] Rework extractors

From the repo that was pointed out in the post from Monday that they are now using temporarily.

https://gitlab.com/dstftw/youtube-dl/-/blob/master/ChangeLog

The commit seems to be related to youtube playlists, should try downloading channels and playlists again and see if they work if anybody here was having problems.

naught sock account 1 · Nov 13, 2020

late meant to add to my previous post but forgot...

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2020/10/27/github-took-down-youtube-dl-so-devs-made-more-copies/

https://archive.md/0qTCj

https://twitter.com/lrvick/status/1319729448166580227

https://archive.md/TtcIC

naught sock account 1 · Nov 13, 2020

https://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2

an alternative in the interim...

Sage In All Fields · Nov 13, 2020

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-09-Google.md

Widevine DRM decryption modules are now being scrubbed from GitHub
Here's the private key used to decrypt Widevine DRM:

Code:

In terms of its components:

Code:

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e = 65537

Cowboy Kim · Nov 15, 2020

Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
a thousand years from now archeologists finds several vinyl pressings preserved in clay tablets, they play one

Fun fact: While they sound like utter ass, you can actually Laser-Cut 33, 45 & even 78rpm records.
You can use wood, acrylic, or even a tortilla:

Smaug's Smokey Hole · Nov 15, 2020

Cowboy Kim said:
Fun fact: While they sound like utter ass, you can actually Laser-Cut 33, 45 & even 78rpm records.
You can use wood, acrylic, or even a tortilla:

X-ray film in the Soviet Union was also used to copy and circulate western music. I think they used retail copies of the records to make their stamper plates, so they probably sounded great! They also wore out fast.

They would cut the X-ray into a crude circle with manicure scissors and use a cigarette to burn a hole. You’d have Elvis on the lungs, Duke Ellington on Aunt Masha’s brain scan—forbidden Western music captured on the interiors of Soviet citizens.

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