Matúš ChochlíkIt is fantastic that AI companies can freely scrape copyrighted stuff from the Internet, but downloading of `youtube-dl` is illegal in the whole EU, because Hamburg regional court said so .. 🤦♂️
Hendrik Niemeyer (he/him)@matus_chochlik good thing that most community dns severs or the international ones do not apply this silly blocking rules 💪
Wilfried Klaebe@hniemeyer Also, "pipx install yt-dlp" pulls the successor from pypi. Blocking pypi would be massive overblocking.
Braw ☕🏳️🌈@hniemeyer I don't think it's DNS, I think they hijacked the host?
@brawaru @matus_chochlik In Germany usually dns blocking is used for copy right cases like this. Wow, it seems that the website was really completely seized and taken down.
sirjofri@hniemeyer @brawaru @matus_chochlik usually yes (see cuii), but the cuii message looks different (colorful, with the cuii logo)
Alexander@brawaru @hniemeyer @matus_chochlik looks like hosting service has to comply because of the threat of penalty
Lamp@hniemeyer @matus_chochlik if this is dns block how is the https connection ok?
@lamp @hniemeyer it's not a DNS block, the server has probably been merc'd because multiple people outside of Europe have confirmed that it is/was serving this.
LautreG@matus_chochlik @Gigoince
Available in Linux, where you can have sources too, and you can compile it may be.
But it's easier to run Linux in VM if you use another OS.
Available in Linux, where you can have sources too, and you can compile it may be.
But it's easier to run Linux in VM if you use another OS.
Ozzelot 
@matus_chochlik Excuse me what the what
RefCell { value: <borrowed> }@matus_chochlik blocked in Canada too
noodle@matus_chochlik
You likely already know this, but for anyone stumbling here thinking it is entirely unavailable:
masukomi@matus_chochlik I didn't hear that'd happened. It just goes to show how clueless the courts & litigators are with regards to how the web works. It's literally just a web browser with a different UI. So if _that's_ illegal then... 🤷♀️
Pixel Dunn
LinuxUserGD 
@matus_chochlik So Selenium is illegal too?
Eli Cardoso@matus_chochlik are you able to use my YouTube downloader https://github.com/niceEli/Simple-YT-Downloader I will say that you do need to compile yourself (it’s c# so you just use visual studio and its easy)
Erotic Mythology ✊@matus_chochlik Wow. Remember the fines for downloading music back in the early 2000s?
Brahms@AimeeMaroux @matus_chochlik you wouldnt download a yt downloader!
Ash_Crow@matus_chochlik all this for... Three songs?
schrotthaufen@matus_chochlik @condret How long till they come for wget, and curl?
tinfoil-hat
Phil
MegatronicThronBanksyt-dlp works better anyway, youtube-dl kinda died, unless it's been reinvigorated.
Linh Pham@matus_chochlik There is a fork of youtube-dl called yt-dlp that I've been using after other issues that cropped up with youtube-dl.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Also, would this site work instead? http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html
magikh@matus_chochlik The proof that copyright has become a tool of oppression
Momo@matus_chochlik
Hamburg regional court... Industries #1 address to fuck users since 1994. If you are there and very silent, you can hear the ghost of von Gravenreuth laughing.
Hamburg regional court... Industries #1 address to fuck users since 1994. If you are there and very silent, you can hear the ghost of von Gravenreuth laughing.
Quincy ⁂
Rodolphe@matus_chochlik Just the EU? I tried with a VPN in Singapore and it's blocked too.
Sarah Roth@matus_chochlik Just a workaround, but maybe give https://pytube.io/en/latest/ a go.
@matus_chochlik Also the repository doesn't seem to be affected: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
@sarahroth thanks, yes there are multiple options how to get around this, but it's the double standard (not to mention the whole copyright "law") that is the concerning thing
@matus_chochlik Well, we are in the age of cyberpunk, and it is more than an aesthetic. So the best we can get is feeling like a cyberpunk hacker while finding workarounds ;-)
Melroy van den Berg@sarahroth @matus_chochlik repository isn't effects yet*. Dcma take down might be incoming sooner than later. Then go use tor.
Linuxine@matus_chochlik Indeed... There is a fork that might be a solution ? https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Menel 
@matus_chochlik
Everyone here constantly posting the same workarounds over and over again, and not understanding that this wasn't a question for a workaround, but about politics and unfair treatment in comparison to rich companies. 🙂
Everyone here constantly posting the same workarounds over and over again, and not understanding that this wasn't a question for a workaround, but about politics and unfair treatment in comparison to rich companies. 🙂
🇺🇦 Myke 
@matus_chochlik you can use alternative front-ends for youtube with convenient download buttons :) Like this one:
@mykhaylo thank you, yes I know there are multiple options and alternatives, but that was not the point of the original post :)
@matus_chochlik I know, but what makes us free from this kind of crap is having lots of options.
Arnim Sommer 🇪🇺@matus_chochlik
Tell me it's status code #451
Tell me it's status code #451
@ArnimRanthoron Indeed it is.
albi von skládka 🇨🇿@matus_chochlik because if we don't let 'murrican AI bros do their exploitation thing we in Europe might somehow become less competetive? 
aura-deprecated@matus_chochlik of course it's hamburg. it's always hamburg or cologne for these.
rugk@matus_chochlik ref https://netzpolitik.org/2023/gerichtsurteil-musikindustrie-geht-erfolgreich-gegen-youtube-downloader-vor/
Gerichtsurteil: Musikindustrie geht erfolgreich gegen Youtube-Downloader vor
Der Anbieter Uberspace hostet die Website von youtube-dl, einer Software zum Herunterladen von Youtube-Videos. Deshalb soll das Mainzer Unternehmen jetzt für Urheberrechtsverletzungen haften, urteilte das Landgericht Hamburg. Uberspace findet:
L.A.@matus_chochlik It's blocking me on every country I try on the VPN, even USA and Australia. Looks like its more like a DNS or ISP block.
Oh well. Cut one head...
the creatures fka "avie!!"@matus_chochlik whats the status on the extended fork yt-dlp? https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
gravitos 
@matus_chochlik will becoming an AI company let me get access to the illegal stuff because i allegedly "train an AI to detect illegal stuff" 
@matus_chochlik also i am NOT in the EU, wtf, did they just murder the entire site
eblu@gravitos @matus_chochlik in the US, can confirm that it's just straight up Gone
Luna Lactea@gravitos @matus_chochlik
youtube-dl development is pretty dead anyway. You should switch to latest yt-dlp, it works better.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
youtube-dl development is pretty dead anyway. You should switch to latest yt-dlp, it works better.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
@gravitos @matus_chochlik
youtube-dl's site is borked even outside of the EU btw. I think their domain might've gotten hijacked, the cert is brand new (June 10th issue date).
youtube-dl's site is borked even outside of the EU btw. I think their domain might've gotten hijacked, the cert is brand new (June 10th issue date).
Solal Nathan@matus_chochlik I have been using this fork for a while and it works:
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Arda Xi 
@matus_chochlik I don't think it's blocked in the EU. Rather, the web host (uberspace.de) is based in Germany, so it falls under German jurisdiction.
Absolutely not defending this kind of censorship, I would consider this a flagrant abuse of intellectual property law. But as a jurisdictional question, this seems relatively uncontroversial.
lea@matus_chochlik yeah you see your mistake was assuming that normal people have rights
kabelsalat@matus_chochlik Ah, Hamburg, the court known for pulling stuff like this time and time again. It's basically the opposite of Berlin Tiergarten.
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