Github receives DMCA notice to take down youtube-dl - and promptly complies.
by ondoho from LinuxQuestions.org on (#59FRV)
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/...-10-23-RIAA.md
The RIAA complained about youtube-dl, github took the repo offline immediately.
Hacker News discussion
After reading a bit I realise that what happened is specific to the US legal system - gihub.com is forced to comply with the takedown immediately, otherwise they're becoming a target of possible legal claims just like the developers of youtube-dl.
So that makes the really fast takedown understandable:
Also see:
https://tildes.net/~tech/suf/youtube...down_from_riaa
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming..._riaa/g9sm6pp/
I've said it many times: don't host your stuff on servers subject to US law!
Interesting: youtube itself does not seem to be affected by any of this.
Many people are cloning the repo, or putting their local copies online,
You can find them on https://gitea.eponym.info/, https://notabug.org/ and even github itself: https://github.com/search?q=RIAA+youtube-dl
Youtube-dl's own web page still works.
So the current version is safe, but I am worried about continued, centralised development...
I hope ytdl devs will post sth on their site. Also how to support them if it should come to a lawsuit.
I have a feeling we have been at similar points many times over the past decade or so, and that's what it always comes down to.
I mean, bittorrent clients are still legal, and I'm sure there was a very similar thing happening there ~10y ago?
I liked this comment on the ycombinator thread:
Quote:
Oh and don't think for one moment that the RIAA's actions have anything to do with supporting the struggling artist.
It appears RIAA's main reasoning is that parts of the code contain actual links to RIAA member companies' material is being used for examples. I don't think they can attack the code itself, unless they get youtube itself behind them.
The RIAA complained about youtube-dl, github took the repo offline immediately.
Hacker News discussion
After reading a bit I realise that what happened is specific to the US legal system - gihub.com is forced to comply with the takedown immediately, otherwise they're becoming a target of possible legal claims just like the developers of youtube-dl.
So that makes the really fast takedown understandable:
Also see:
https://tildes.net/~tech/suf/youtube...down_from_riaa
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming..._riaa/g9sm6pp/
I've said it many times: don't host your stuff on servers subject to US law!
Interesting: youtube itself does not seem to be affected by any of this.
Many people are cloning the repo, or putting their local copies online,
You can find them on https://gitea.eponym.info/, https://notabug.org/ and even github itself: https://github.com/search?q=RIAA+youtube-dl
Youtube-dl's own web page still works.
So the current version is safe, but I am worried about continued, centralised development...
I hope ytdl devs will post sth on their site. Also how to support them if it should come to a lawsuit.
I have a feeling we have been at similar points many times over the past decade or so, and that's what it always comes down to.
I mean, bittorrent clients are still legal, and I'm sure there was a very similar thing happening there ~10y ago?
I liked this comment on the ycombinator thread:
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It appears RIAA's main reasoning is that parts of the code contain actual links to RIAA member companies' material is being used for examples. I don't think they can attack the code itself, unless they get youtube itself behind them.