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cipherboy
on Oct 23, 2020
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YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
It wasn't in the repo's README: it was part of the test suite for better or worse.
See: youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py line L557
kelnos
on Oct 23, 2020
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I doubt there's any "for better" in that. It's an easy bit for the RIAA to latch onto to make their case, and I expect a judge or reasonable person on a jury would make make a distinction between the two, but not enough to matter.
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See: youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py line L557