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Unfortunately, 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
by rmrfstar 6y ago
Unfortunately, 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