• BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml
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    All they did was take down the website that links to the GitHub repository. They already tried to have GitHub pull it, and they did but then restored it and setup a legal defense fund for projects in similar situations which seems like a pretty big “fuck you”.

    This story is a nothing-burger, the equivalent of the blue bucket meme.

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        The article doesn’t mention that YouTube/Google were involved at all. It was the record labels that filed the suit.

        … has been blocked due to copyright infringement claims by major music labels Sony, Warner, and Universal …

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          Yes, the article is not very good. Main players here are google and gihub. My experience with media is that they often don’t publish everything, sometimes because of incompetence sometimes for sponsor money. So we have to use our heads a bit.

          Not even mentioning google, not even.asking google what they think of youtube-dl, not even asking MS to comment. Give us at least a question and ‘they said no comment’.

          Not really good reporting and we got used to that.

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            Why would they mention Google at all? Google can’t sue anyone for Copyright Infringement when someone downloads a video off their site, because Google doesn’t own the copyrights of the videos.

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    This seems like it would follow along the same lines as emulators and torrent downloaders. If you don’t download anything illegal with it, you’re not doing anything wrong. I use this software for work to download good resolution/low filesize copies of my client’s videos. Hopefully I can continue using it.

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      All else fails, grab yt-dlp. It’s a fork that I tend to find works better than normal youtube-dl anyway.

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      I don’t even think you need to go as far as comparing it to emulators and torrent downloaders. It just downloads what’s publicly hosted on the web, it’s no different from a web browser basically.

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      Yes, that would be for the best.

      Similar to how certain VPN/Mail clients/journalists (due to leaks) and others are in non-western areas.

      I am forgetting some…

      edit: word

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        There is some difference between private communication and open source code that smis available to anyone.