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Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters
The music industry is shifting up a gear and is now taking action against a German hosting provider. Three big labels are suing the provider Uberspace for hosting the website of the open source project youtube-dl. With the software, which is available on the code sharing platform Github, YouTube videos and music files can be downloaded without a web browser. According to the plaintiffs, this violates copyright law. ...
https://news.i-n24.com/lifestyle/news/253970.html

The article is unclear on this, but the lawsuit appears to by Sony Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music, filed at the district court of Hamburg.

Time for Google to step up and declare whether it is for good, or has sided with the evil of copyright absolutists.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29924339

#YoutubeDL #MusicIndustry #Copyright #DefundCopyright #Hamburg #DRM #DigitalRestrictionsManagement #YouTube #Google #AlphabetInc
Very interesting! Besides which side Google is on in this lawsuit (good or evil), the other descriptions of the sides are dead or alive...

(or on life support, soon to die, or alive)
And if you're a YouTuber who welcomes viewers downloading your videos, I suggest you move to PeerTube or your own static site!

Since there's questions whether YouTube is DRM...
Yikes! That would kill one of my research projects.
my brain: "google, dont be evil now"
Again?! don''t they know they can't win?
What a frivolous lawsuit. By their same logic, Firefox, Chromium, qTorrent or your computer could also be considered to infringe on copyright for "having the capability to download copyrighted material." Youtube's terms of service are broken, but that doesn't give third parties the ability to sue on Youtube's behalf here.
If you don't think they're not planning to go there, this is the same industry that sued against audiotapes and hard drives and has those taxed on the basis that they might be used to record copyrighted music that they control.
Yes, there was a "DMCA" claim against youtube-dl's github repo about two years ago:

https://torrentfreak.com/riaas-youtube-dl-takedown-ticks-of-developers-and-githubs-ceo-201027/

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md

I believe I was amongst the first to point out that this was not in fact a valid section 512 infringement claim, but something else, for which GitHub likely didn't have to act at least under the normal 512 provisions:

https://archive.ph/uMVHS

(The site that was posted to is now offline, archive captures the post and discussion however.)