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Google has sent a cease and desist letter to youtube-dl. It didn’t work out well. And of course, Google is an AI company, too.
by notpushkin 1mo ago
Google has sent a cease and desist letter to youtube-dl. It didn’t work out well.
And of course, Google is an AI company, too.
- account42 1mo agoWasn't it a DMCA takedown actually?
- notpushkin 1mo agoThere are probably some legal differences (IANAL), but isn’t the idea basically the same as in C&D?
- gamer191 1mo agoIt was the RIAA, not Google It failed because it didn’t make any technical sense. The RIAA was trying to argue that YouTube’s proof-of-work JavaScript challenges were some kind of DRM and by running JavaScript YouTube-dl was circumventing DRM