Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters
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
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
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•(or on life support, soon to die, or alive)
Adrian Cochrane
•Since there's questions whether YouTube is DRM...
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•Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
•MiKlo:~/citizen4.eu$💙💛
"They can't sue all of us".
Just created yet another #youtubedl mirror outside corporate servers
https://gitea.citizen4.eu/mirror/yt-dlp
https://gitea.citizen4.eu/mirror/youtube-dl
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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
•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.)
RIAA’s YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub’s CEO
Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)