![]() They had to cite a German legal ruling which found YouTube’s “rolling cipher” was an anti-circumvention device. The only tenuous leg the RIAA has to stand on is claiming that allowing only streaming of content constitutes some form of digital rights management code, and by reverse engineering it, without imposing the same restrictions as Youtube's website and apps, do, maybe that's some form of circumvention which will be found not entirely legal. It only has the time-shift functionality. To me this seems even more tenuous, but IANAL.ĭownloading a Youtube video with youtube-dl IS NOT violating copyright in the USA.ĭownloading videos may violate Youtube's TOS, but that's civil/contract law and not criminal and so the DMCA can't be used to enforce such TOS violations.Ī person might share a video they don't own the copyright to, after downloading it from youtube with youtube-dl, but youtube-dl has no functionality in it to do such illegal sharing. It wasn't in the readme, but in the test cases. P.S.: They also took down youtube-dlc, even though it's not listed. I don't understand what leg they have to stand on here. This doesn't circumvent DRM like Widevine. ![]() IANAL, but this seems outrageous the same way DMCA'ing a Bittorrent client would be. ![]() Instead, they attacked the project itself. They could, of course, have asked for the code to have been changed. 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: > 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. Note that RIAA is making this takedown because the software CAN be used to download copyrighted music and videos, and it uses examples in the ~~README~~(unit tests, see correction) as an example of that: ![]()
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