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It’s probably a case of fair use but it’ll have to go to court to decide that
by alexfromapex 6y ago
It’s probably a case of fair use but it’ll have to go to court to decide that
- jchw 6y agoIANAL but I don't even think DMCA applies. It's not like YouTube-dl is breaking copy protection schemes, at most it is handling anti-abuse schemes. After all, it's not like you can go and bypass Widevine with youtube-dl.
- rmrfstar 6y agoUnfortunately, it is making a copy. These guys also fucked up by "marketing" it for use in circumventing such controls. They should have showed how to pull OCW lectures. (a)(2)(C) is the part. IANAL but that's my take. [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
- jchw 6y agoI can understand why it would seem like circumvention, but one usage of YouTube-dl even with the README invocations is so that you can listen to or watch the media in a personal capacity. Not technically any different from how you might using the actual YouTube client, albeit probably in violation of YouTube's ToS. "Copying" in a legal sense might need a little more rigor. (IANAL either, though, so hell if I know.)
- zucker42 6y agoWhat if I use youtube-dl like mpv <(youtube-dl youtube.com/video-url) or similar. Then no permanent copy is made. I agree that they could have been cleverer in their marketing.
- account42 6y agoaka mpv https://youtube.com/video-url