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RIAA trying to take down youtube-dl, time to fight back

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SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: NANDBlog on October 27, 2020, 09:13:45 am ---[...]  they are just going to make other sources, like they start charging for your internet or other bullshit like that.

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I think they should just sell special supporter RIAA memberships to ordinary members of the public for something reasonable, like $10 a month -  in return, the paying RIAA member is allowed to download and copy whatever the heck they want for personal use. 

I'd gladly pay $10 a month to support artists etc.,  and I would surely enjoy not having to deal with DRM ever again.

magic:
Actually,

--- Quote --- Currently our dev repository is taken down due to DMCA takedown notice by RIAA.

Downloads still work as usual.
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So it's a nothingburger so far.


--- Quote from: edy on October 27, 2020, 10:31:41 pm ---I understand their point is to get rid of a central "repository" where all different downloaders get their core code and update whenever YouTube changes something (so each developer doesn't have to reinvent the wheel each time) but they will just find a hidden way to distribute it. Or you will have 10 other public "forks" pop up that stay below RIAA's radar.

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That's the whole point. Stuff that's hidden from public view and stays below RIAA's radar will also stay below the radar of a typical consumer. But see above, they haven't even managed to take down their main website yet.

Besides, as you said, true piracy is almost dead. Kids these days just watch those junk 96k streams on AdsTube because it doesn't require any of that "downloading" rubbish :scared:

Berni:
The way the music industry works behind the scenes is a whole new can of worms.

In order for an artist to become hugely popular they will generally have to sell there soul to one of the big record labels. This involves signing a hugely unfair contract that lets the record label take most of the money, or put the artist deep in debt if they don't succeed. In return for selling there soul to them the record label pulls the appropriate strings to make them popular by getting there music out there, helping them record a music video, get it on all the music platforms, MTV, radio etc..

Its very rare for a artist to make it big without getting bootstrapped by big labels. And the stuff that makes it is the usual pop music that is tuned to at least slightly appeal to the widest possible audience in order to make sure the record label can make as much money as possible from it.

And yeah these are the sort of companies that pull the strings behind RIAA

coppercone2:
for some reason I can see a sound review board arguing if a 3 second sound byte of a song should be changed to target a certain demographic better  ::)

madires:
RIAA's YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub's CEO: https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/10/27/2230218/riaas-youtube-dl-takedown-ticks-off-developers-and-githubs-ceo

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