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https://yt-dl.org/ Some things I know off of the top of my head: - While it's called Youtube-dl, it is specifically coded to work with HUNDREDS of streaming services (including cable TV channels), Facebook, Twitter, etc., and can download video streams for offline viewing via the command line. (You have to log in with legit credentials to any site that requires logins to access.) - Hundreds of people contributed to the project over the past several years. - A number of people who have contributed to the project (including people who haven't worked on it for quite some time) have gotten cease and desist letters. - The takedown is coming from both German and USA based sources, but mainly the RIAA. - The takedown seems to be focusing on some code that gets around some URL obfuscation that YouTube uses for various music videos and such, which is kind of a stretch AFAIK calling that a "protection" in the same way CSS is to a DVD for example. - The latest version (9.20.2020) is still available from yt-dl.org and other mirrors and mostly works. But, it will stop working as Google and other sources move their codebase around. Youtube-dl was very reliable, but only because it had hundreds of active contributors constantly fixing it as YouTube and other sites change their code. This is bad and lovely.
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One hour twenty minute long stream from a lawyer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZITscblMBA So far I learned that there is an actual rarely used HTTP code 451, "unavailable for legal reasons." The 451 is from Fahrenheit 451, a novel about book burning. Bula Vinaka fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Oct 25, 2020 |
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The two main commercial DVD/Blu-Ray/4K disc decrypting programs are Redfox AnyDVD, and DVDFab. Those definitely violate the DMCA. Redfox's servers are located in Belize, and DVDFab's servers are located in Russia. (At least, their IP's resolve to those countries... their physical servers may be located elsewhere.) I do remember that Redfox used to be called Slysoft and was located in Antigua. The story I remember is the USA started putting pressure on Antigua to do something about a number of "grey area" businesses that were being run there, including Slysoft, and the owner closed it down. The developers decided to continue on and moved everything to Belize. DVDFab is Chinese and they used to be located in China. I don't remember the whole story but their domain got seized and they came back a little bit later on a new domain. I'm not sure where they moved to and from but their domain ended up in Russia. Those are both commercial products and they had problems getting payments to be processed by MasterCard and VISA. Both had times when credit card purchases weren't an option. Both currently do have credit card payments available. RedFox in fact just released "AnyStream" which can direct save (not screen capture) 1080p/5.1 streams from Netflix and Amazon Prime (with legit logins), and they're planning on adding more.
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Some links, all "unofficial": https://github.com/l1ving/youtube-dl Part of the problem was that the official Github had actual copyrighted content in some of the test and documentation folders. The above clone removes those. https://source.netsyms.com/Mirrors/youtube-dl/ A clone/mirror from a guy who says he owns the actual server that's hosting it and that the RIAA can't touch him. (Not sure about that since it's located in the USA.) https://gitlab.com/nephros/youtube-dl/-/tree/master Gitlab clone/mirror.
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Oct 26, 2020 22:08
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The RIAA letter says in part,quote:We also note that the source code prominently includes as sample uses of the source code the downloading of copies of our members’ copyrighted sound recordings and music videos, as noted in Exhibit A hereto. For example, as shown on Exhibit A, the source code expressly suggests its use to copy and/or distribute the following copyrighted works owned by our member companies: This sort of reminds me when the RIAA came down on commercial Usenet providers in the early 00's. It was basically about how a lot of the providers would have marketing verbiage on their websites along the lines of "Download 10 songs at once", "Download your favorite mp3's in half the time," and make references to specific binary Usenet groups like alt.binaries.mp3. I can't remember all the details but I know there were legal threats involved, and afterwards commercial Usenet providers changed their marketing verbiage. It was basically about how they were "too encouraging" of users to feel it's perfectly OK to download copyrighted content, or it at least creates a mindset that sharing copyrighted mp3's was no big deal. Indeed, that was a time when even SA had mp3 and bittorrent forums. That's what I think is going on here as well.
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