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Nice...I bet the evil RIAA didn't think only about the two tests when they reported the project....

• sp332 6y ago
  Actually that's all they complained about.
  • chrisfinazzo 6y ago
    Hold up... Copyright lawyers are idiots, next question.
  • hvis 6y ago
    IIRC the complaint was about the "circumvention" algorithm in the code.
  • josephcsible 6y ago
    I think the point was that their real goal was to kill youtube-dl entirely, and the tests just happened to give them something to complain about to do so.
  • jasonjayr 6y ago
    Random cynical thought -- they noticed because the automated testing was bumping up the # of views on those streams, so their members were being forced to pay royalties on views that were not real ...
    • bigbubba 6y ago
      Does use of youtube-dl to download videos from youtube really bump the view count? I have assumed that it doesn't, since it probably isn't passing whatever systems youtube has for addressing 'view count fraud'.
      • jasonjayr 6y ago
        I haven't tested, so I couldn't tell you. I imagine as YT's anti-download measures get more intense, the more yt-dl has to behave like a real browser, including ticking up the view count.