steven36 Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 This afternoon, one of the most well-known pieces of software for downloading YouTube videos, youtube-dl, was removed from GitHub following a takedown notice from the Recording Industry Association of America, or RIAA. Whether you’re looking to backup contents of your personal YouTube account or download some of your favorite YouTuber’s videos for offline use, many turn to youtube-dl as the most reliable and in-depth tool for downloading videos from YouTube — along with many, many other sites that have videos like Vimeo, CNN, etc. Beyond simple downloading features, youtube-dl is also able to convert your download into nearly any format, including creating an mp3 of just a video’s audio track. Like many things in life, there are legal and illegal ways of using youtube-dl, especially as YouTube has grown its paid music subscription service. On Friday afternoon, the RIAA issued a DMCA — Digital Millennium Copyright Act — takedown notice to GitHub requesting that the site remove the open source code of youtube-dl and all associated mirrors. One of the primary bases for the RIAA’s claim is that youtube-dl appears to be developed with the explicit intention of enabling the downloading of copyrighted works, with music videos from the likes of Icona Pop, Justin Timberlake, and Taylor Swift being used to test the tool’s functionality, a claim which we were able to independently verify. Indeed, the comments in the youtube-dl source code make clear that the source code was designed and is marketed for the purpose of circumventing YouTube’s technological measures to enable unauthorized access to our member’s copyrighted works, and to make unauthorized copies and distributions thereof: they identify our member’s works, they note that the works are VEVO videos (virtually all of which are owned by our member companies), they acknowledge those works are licensed to YouTube under the YouTube standard license, and they use those examples in the source code to describe how to obtain unauthorized access to copies of our members’ works. This takedown notice does not necessarily spell the permanent end of youtube-dl. GitHub always immediately takes down any source code project that receives a DMCA notice like this, but the project’s creators will have an opportunity to file a counterclaim in the hopes of restoring youtube-dl’s status on GitHub. We’ll be keeping an eye on the situation as it develops. In the meantime, those who still have youtube-dl on their device, or can obtain it from a mirror, are able to continue using it as normal. The larger issue is that youtube-dl will likely cease to receive updates for the time being, and therefore, any changes made by YouTube or other video services could potentially cause the tool to no longer function. As youtube-dl is a fairly well-known and powerful tool, with over 72,000 stars on GitHub, it’s likely there are many other tools that rely on it for their YouTube-related capabilities. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zanderthunder Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 Should have another backup other than GitHub tho, so that when one was taken down via DMCA, the others are not affected. For now, youtube-dl still works on my Media Player Classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted October 24, 2020 Author Share Posted October 24, 2020 One of the forks is back up youtube-dlc you can just rename it youtube-dl and use it as youtube-dl the reason they got took down was because it had YouTube urls of Icona Pop, Justin Timberlake, and Taylor Swift embedded in the code from when they was testing so the maintainer of youtube-dlc removed the infringing code from his. i tested its working on YouTube . We will just have to wait and see how long it stays up ,why the dev put it back on GitHub i have no idea but he should of put it on another git site . youtube-dlc 2020.10.24-6 Changelog: COMPLAINFREE [youtube] yt search feed fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharelol Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 I use this https://github.com/Maxstupo/ydl-ui Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted October 24, 2020 Author Share Posted October 24, 2020 54 minutes ago, Sharelol said: I use this https://github.com/Maxstupo/ydl-ui The dev just downloaded youtube-dl from the deleted youtube-dl git to put in his app package he depends on youtube-dl for app updates . Only reason they not delete his git is because they didn't catch he has youtube-dl in his app package. Most youtube-dl guis you have to get it from youtube-dl some apps have auto update feature that downloads updates from youtube-dl . Update packaged youtube-dl to 2020.09.20 (#69) Update packaged FFmpeg to 4.3.1 (#69) I have Tartube and Youtube-GUI . MPV , SMplayer i have FFmpeg PPA that updates FFmpeg system wide for all my apps I am able to update youtube-dl for all my apps with only one command sudo pip install --upgrade youtube_dl Update! They got the downloads working again at youtube-dl homepage https://youtube-dl.org/ Just there DEV Repo at GitHub is down. Only App i have to update manually is XDM because components for it are hidden in the home folder in they removed auto update feature only the installer downloads it ,so i update it myself .Now im testing youtube-dlc in it also i get new FFmpeg Linux builds for it from John Van Sickle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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