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On the one hand, having those examples in the test suite was sloppy. On the other hand, my $1000 matched EFF donation goes into effect next Friday so that’s good. Also, an important reminder than git is decentralized by design and this is all a game of whack-a-mole. https://t.co/geoGNX3jOY
— Christina Warren (@film_girl) October 23, 2020
The RIAA just got GitHub to ban open source YouTube downloaders.
— Lance R. Vick ( @lrvick@mastodon.social ) (@lrvick) October 23, 2020
They don't want anyone to share this code:
mplayer $(echo -s "https://t.co/0ed54RJNXz $youtube_url | sed -n "/watch_fullscreen/s;.＊\(video_id.\+\)&title.＊;\1;p")&fmt=22")
Woops.https://t.co/B6DWUTAhFS
Another reason to run your own source code repositories if you can using Gitea or GitLab and only use GitHub as a mirror for reach.
— Aral Balkan ? (@aral@mastodon.ar.al) (@aral) October 24, 2020
e.g., Our canonical self-hosted repositories at Small Technology Foundation:https://t.co/UeYg60RJ3X
Our GitHub mirror:https://t.co/kMGonTr6me https://t.co/lY75YPmyJH
RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videos
— Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) October 23, 2020
Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed 72k stars on GitHub and was used in many YouTube video ripping tools and services.https://t.co/S5ymmoS3gt pic.twitter.com/DVjdwyjrLP
Who owns github if not Microsoft, one of the most copyright loving companies in the world. https://t.co/Hd0aE1PNzu
— Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (@brokep) October 24, 2020
Never thought I'd hear that name again! Feels like it's been over 10 years since one of the major subplots of the internet was them suing people for hundreds of thousands of dollars for up/down-loading a few songs (eg. https://t.co/pGKriF2Tzs) https://t.co/2yfoHyxXj4
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) October 24, 2020
You can still download youtube-dl using PyPi so go do that now if you haven't yet https://t.co/3vP5C1iBW8 https://t.co/WBtdIqlApf
— Anjali (@anjalii_shrivas) October 23, 2020
As long as guns are allowed to be sold for lawful uses, all other tools should by extension not even be discussed as illegal. https://t.co/kb96Oy04j5
— Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (@brokep) October 24, 2020
The repo of YouTube-dl must be reinstated. Tools like these are *essential* in legit contexts that involve OSINT, including:
— Matthijs R. Koot (@mrkoot) October 24, 2020
- journalism
- academic research
- law enforcement
- private investigations
The @RIAA's move shows a lack of understanding of tech & respect for others. https://t.co/DbNJMJkQ6C
The RIAA will stop at no cost, in one generation or the next, to ensure that their restrictive idea of music rights is enforced to the highest degree, no matter how much technology they must stifle to make it possible https://t.co/4ByEPd3x3k
— Kaitlyn Molinas (@orcastraw) October 23, 2020
in case you missed it, GitHub has capitulated to a ridiculous request from the RIAA to remove the youtube-dl source, presumably leading to a whack-a-mole as they migrate? curious to see how pypi, ubuntu, homebrew all respond. https://t.co/c1WghwLyPU
— Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) October 23, 2020
The RIAA has been spinning up their DMCA takedown abuse machine again, targeting:
— Karl (@supersat) October 23, 2020
1) Videos on Twitter with fleeting/fair use instances of music in the background
2) Twitch VODs
3) GitHub projects, but AFAICT you can't do a § 512 takedown notice for an alleged § 1201 violation
This is a huge misstep. I've been using youtube-dl for years to play media using my local player when I've had issues playing the content online. This includes when I was a student to fetch lectures for watching without great internet connectivity. https://t.co/XIMuwb26rV
— nedwill (@NedWilliamson) October 24, 2020
youtube-dl was taken down by RIAA via DMCA. You know, the one that was archived here:https://t.co/VlbqjXxcpE
— scriptjunkie (@scriptjunkie1) October 23, 2020
and is still live here:https://t.co/OtmtlBjCIj
with hash e0ece0221b389c8054cb86661d8f9fb7408d8f4dbc17cc413715dd61ad825133 just in case you wanted to check it for malware
I am perplexed as to how the RIAA has any legitimate claim here. https://t.co/Mlm64hUBIL
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) October 23, 2020
I think it's worth understanding the difference between why a platform like Github would take things down under a “normal” DMCA takedown notice and under the RIAA letter over youtube-dl.
— Parker Higgins (@xor) October 23, 2020
Holy cow, the RIAA has gotten youtube-dl taken off Github. DMCA notice: https://t.co/V50S6H6Evk
— Parker Higgins (@xor) October 23, 2020
The strongest argument seems to be the fact that examples of usage in the documentation included copyright protected songs from major recording artists.
— Dylan Reeve (@DylanReeve) October 23, 2020
Time to redo all the examples with Big Buck Bunny videos or something. https://t.co/LG7b76Z7o1
Fuck this shit youtube-dl is one of my favorite archiving tools out there https://t.co/RlW9Zn8rmq
— LEFT?GHOST?FRIGHT?WATCH (@LCRWnews) October 23, 2020
Get your privately hosted git servers ready, fellow wrongthinkers https://t.co/sE0MhA9aWy
— Jeff Vandroux ? ? ? ? ? ? (@vandrewattycpa) October 23, 2020
Important to remember that the responsibility for the decision to comply rests with Microsoft, which owns Github.
— Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) October 23, 2020
Microsoft has been an enthusiastic member of the Copyright Cartel for a long, long time. https://t.co/RyEIf0BwzA
I'm so fucking sick of the DMCA https://t.co/kyYm0UTLKZ
— Matt Lech (@MattLech) October 23, 2020
I use YouTube-dl for so many things, from sharing videos from twitter and Reddit to WhatsApp to converting YouTube talks to audio (although luckily, now @CastroPodcasts can do that) . I Can’t believe this happened. https://t.co/r2raUZcLC9
— Mustapha Hamoui (@Beirutspring) October 24, 2020
So, besides the obvious "RIAA is doing stupid stuff again", and the less obvious "github opted for the easy way out, gave the giant what he wanted, screw the little guy"...
— Marcos Marado (@mind_booster) October 23, 2020
They didn't just take down youtube-dl, but every of its forks. Without notice, silently, I lost mine. https://t.co/ljAdg3X2C6
GitHub, welcome home develo-no not that the corporations don't want that https://t.co/zLy8etxBTS
— Rami Ismail (رامي) (@tha_rami) October 23, 2020
Youtube-DL is no longer available on GitHub because @RIAA filed a takedown request. Fuck the music industry. https://t.co/Rb3GOfaIUD
— Corbin Davenport (@corbindavenport) October 23, 2020
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a DMCA with Github to have youtube-dl deleted.
— ?? ישוע ?? (@Job4_2) October 23, 2020
It is an excellent utility that can be used for archiving YouTube and many other platforms.
The chilling effect would be devastating.https://t.co/BcrVWwmrzL
Do I know anyone at @Github? This is bullshit. We’ve used youtube-dl before for a project archiving activist videos about BLM/police brutality.
— Thomas Spooks #BLM (@thomasfuchs) October 24, 2020
What’s next? Banning cURL? https://t.co/DEY8m2qVFs
This is insane. Now the increasingly irrelevant music industry is removing code from the internet that I use to download videos for fair use purposes in my educational videos.
— GreenEggsnHam (@HamEggsnSam) October 24, 2020
This whole system is so incredibly broken.https://t.co/JhpzHvHK0A
Youtube-dl is a legitimate tool with a world of a lawful uses. Demanding its removal from Github is a disappointing and counterproductive move by the RIAA. https://t.co/VUbTokd4cP
— EFF (@EFF) October 23, 2020
Completely unsurprised that the RIAA would make silly requests like this. https://t.co/uqjE2OMyBr
— Stefano Zanero (@raistolo) October 24, 2020
So RIAA just took down youtube-dl... what's next?https://t.co/DyzxHPXMoz
— Danct12 (@RealDanct12) October 23, 2020
"Maybe the creators of Whack-a-Mole will sue the RIAA for infringement on their unique IP."https://t.co/usKpRjOD8p
— Joe Ressington (@JoeRessington) October 24, 2020
RIAA(미국음반산업협회), youtube-dl이 불법 다운로드에 이용될 수 있다는 이유로 Github 게시 정지 요청 제출해. 이에 따라 Github는 원본 포함해 수십 개의 리포지토리 삭제. https://t.co/osUdhqkyaK
— 나가토 유키 (@nagato708) October 23, 2020
YouTube-dl removed from GitHub after RIAA DMCA notice https://t.co/w2xkjbyVAh
— Nicolas Krassas (@Dinosn) October 24, 2020
Youtube-dl is a legitimate tool with a world of a lawful uses. Demanding its removal from Github is a disappointing and counterproductive move by the RIAA. https://t.co/VUbTokd4cP
— EFF (@EFF) October 23, 2020
OpenSource project YouTube-dl, which used to download videos from youtube or other video platforms on Linux and Unix system has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA https://t.co/FFN1sBbRuX
— The Best Linux Blog In the Unixverse (@nixcraft) October 24, 2020
Github removed YouTube-dl repositories and forks today after received a DMCA takedown from RIAA.https://t.co/J7u1G5oLt7https://t.co/OS4orgC0DQ
— Dgit (@dgitSH) October 24, 2020
Dgit fixes this.
At the request of the recording industry, GitHub has removed public access to the youtube-dl repository, an incredibly useful open source tool for downloading local copies of videos from YouTube and other sites. Here's RIAA's takedown notice https://t.co/z2fsEIYTjD pic.twitter.com/LNOz89BZUI
— Micah Lee (@micahflee) October 23, 2020
This isn’t really a DMCA request. I don’t see an assertion that youtube-dl is an infringing work. Rather the claim is that it’s illegal per se https://t.co/vQ16nVleCf
— John Bergmayer (@bergmayer) October 23, 2020
#Cybersecurity #InfoSec dmca/2020-10-23-RIAA.md at master · github/dmca · GitHub https://t.co/8V0SqfmeQ2, see more https://t.co/89yi9eBYhl
— sritak@home ?? (@SritaKaren) October 24, 2020
They are tightening the noose. Yesterday, the RIAA sent a DMCA 1201 takedown notice to @Github demanding the removal of #youtubedl, a venerable and popular tool for format-shifting Youtube videos. https://t.co/ej679RWh6G
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) October 24, 2020
16/
youtube-dl がアメリカレコード協会から DMCA テイクダウンされた模様。 / “dmca/2020-10-23-RIAA.md at master · github/dmca · GitHub” https://t.co/3P1w8H9WIQ
— mattn (@mattn_jp) October 24, 2020
youtube-dl is now illegal – please delete immediatelyhttps://t.co/6w71jmiI9r
— Bad Packets (@bad_packets) October 23, 2020
GitHub has complied with the takedown request. This is unacceptable. Stop using Github and stop using servers hosted in countries with unacceptable copyright laws.https://t.co/rj5M2jDU7n
— Carlos Fenollosa (@cfenollosa) October 23, 2020
RIAA Takes Down Popular Open Source YouTube-DL Software https://t.co/cLDOXUrNYt
— TF (@torrentfreak) October 24, 2020
This is wrong ! https://t.co/Mzx3b2bw0B
— Dutch Osint Guy Nico (@dutch_osintguy) October 24, 2020
Wait… since web browsers are also able to stream & download media files like YouTube vids, I have to ask how long it will take until Chrome, Firefox, and the rest will vanish due to some takedown notice from the Recording Industry Association of America.https://t.co/RrX3tkpH2F
— e-sushi ? (@originalesushi) October 24, 2020
The RIAA strikes again. The joke that keeps on stealing.https://t.co/NRcYY9d8SB
— Anonymous? (@YourAnonNews) October 24, 2020
Didn't realize it was this popular. Oh - and
— Karthik Kumar Viswanathan (@_vkaku) October 24, 2020
pip install -U youtube-dl https://t.co/lEbCiNQWZC
— Misoni (@MISONLN41) October 24, 2020
動画サイトから動画をダウンロードするソフトウェアとして最大手のyoutube-dlのGitHubがRIAAのDMCA takedown noticeにより検閲された。https://t.co/umxsHjsES4
— Ryou Ezoe(江添 亮) (@EzoeRyou) October 23, 2020
Yes, that will stop people downloading videos. The RIAA has finally won, just like they won with Napster and everyone stopped file sharing.
— Soldier of SPOOKTRAN - M?INFR?MES (@mainframed767) October 24, 2020
https://t.co/aheLXP5Bvo
Awww, the RIAA is back, providing their public service of telling people about ways to pirate content they would otherwise never have heard of. The 90s are back! https://t.co/wN9bvHC16O
— Laurie Voss (@seldo) October 24, 2020
Fucking what?!? https://t.co/6fwb0iJWfa
— uǝsuǝſ ɹǝɐſꓘ sᴉuuǝꓷ (@signoutdk) October 24, 2020
So this happened: youtube-dl, an open-source tool for downloading YouTube videos, got blocked on Github under request from RIAA, since they say it violates copyright rules. https://t.co/I5L1021K6B
— Antonio Mele (@antoniomele101) October 24, 2020
People like RMS and others warned all of us about something like this happening.#GitHub takes down all repos of #youtube-dl because they can.
— Akash - Founder - Kloudle Kubernetes Security SaaS (@makash) October 24, 2020
A lot of #opensource communities have or are planning to move to #github. https://t.co/JCCYZ52tFA
Just in case you didn't know that's possible to download Youtube (and from other video hosting services) video, once youtube-dl source reappears somewhere you should get it, it's great! https://t.co/vxeCq9AIXa
— Бранимир Караџић (@bkaradzic) October 23, 2020
Should microphones be banned because can ALSO record music played on radio?
— b9AcE ? (@b9AcE) October 24, 2020
"youtube-dl" with specific support for archiving from thousands sites https://t.co/gjlkJTyp9z and generic for countless, sabotaged by @RIAA because they say it's all about them.https://t.co/LXlL3H0Gck
DMCAテイクダウンポリシー発動
— jp (@yzjps) October 25, 2020
アメリカレコード協会が怒ったぞhttps://t.co/Ui7YJeFM3t
その界隈では話題
This is an important read. #downloadTHISweb https://t.co/5lp1GCDRDG
— J OWL Farand (@OwlsAsylum) October 24, 2020
The RIAA is coming for the YouTube downloaders https://t.co/9bg9aP0i8d (TechCrunch)
— Hikosaemon (@hikosaemon) October 24, 2020
Bummer. youtube-dl received a DMCA takedown notice from the RIAA yesterday.
— Randy Olson (@randal_olson) October 24, 2020
Many folks are already making publicly-available copies of it to defy the RIAA. #Python #programming #OpenSourcehttps://t.co/OhOg5eTFe4 pic.twitter.com/LmYqLR5igM
アメリカレコード協会が怒った
— jp (@yzjps) October 25, 2020
DMCAテイクダウンポリシー申請
Copyright Violations.
We have learned that your service is hosting the youtube-dl source code on its network at the following locations, among others:https://t.co/ytqBaVFwYz
現在20程
yourは買収したマイクロソフトさんです
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a DMCA with Github to have youtube-dl deleted.
— ?? ישוע ?? (@Job4_2) October 23, 2020
It is an excellent utility that can be used for archiving YouTube and many other platforms.
The chilling effect would be devastating.https://t.co/BcrVWwmrzL
Copyright law must be revamped to strip an author's ability to use it to control the manner in which a work is consumed and enjoyed.https://t.co/ZelLatmagL
— Datashed Retrocomputing (@datashed) October 24, 2020
Read this.https://t.co/BypV4DuX6B
— Khizar Iqbal (@EngrKhizarIqbal) October 25, 2020
youtube-dl is a valuable tool that does far more than grab YouTube videos. I’ve used it for years to gather fair-use clips from across the web for my course materials. https://t.co/B17dHxRPIP
— Josh Braun (@josh_braun) October 24, 2020
youtube-dl for RIAA DMCA complaint. Everyone who has the source code, back it up. looks like their mistake was docs referred to copyright videos. Hoping for *ten* new github projects tomorrow that correct the doc mistake: https://t.co/CtnJjdvSjb . copying is not theft
— mike bayer (@zzzeek) October 24, 2020
Note on the #youtubedl DMCA takedown this night.
— codeberg.org (@codeberg_org) October 23, 2020
In a very unusual turn RIAA justifies the takedown request with EU/German law and claim US analogy to EU rules. https://t.co/SJPJCyY3yS
.@RIAA
— Thomas Duboucher (@Serianox_) October 23, 2020
Dear Sir or Madam:
Kindly go fuck yourself.
Sincerely,https://t.co/Weul93tOXm
Very damaging move from @RIAA here : we do use Youtube-dl a lot and for legitimate uses: @TEDTalks, MOOCs from @phzuerich that benefit refugees, and tons of educational content under free licenses that need to reach people without internet access. https://t.co/CCCVQOnSrA
— Kiwix (@KiwixOffline) October 24, 2020
RIAAがGitHubに訴えたメールに一件だけgithubのアドレスがprivateとして消されているものがあるけど、非常に気になる。何だこれhttps://t.co/SXC3s2cc1O
— 高梨陣平 (@jingbay) October 24, 2020
RIAA側の情報は全部、privateで消されている :-)