A bullshit claim from this fraudulent group of record industry scum that have been up to the same shenanigans for a long time..
There's no protection to circumvent - its youtube, there are no protection measures. Unless you want to flag the videos as private, in which case the tool cant see them or do anything about it. So that part of the request is a lie. The tool isnt hacking into anything.
There's also no copyright being breeched by the youtube-dl tool itself since the tool is authored and distributed with an open license, which also make all forks that respect the license just as legally valid. RIAA dont own shit as far as the tool is concerned.
With regard to content on youtube, there's free stuff on youtube, as well as stuff the creators have permitted people to mirror, and then fair use is a thing for stuff which people dont want mirrored. A tiny subset of stuff owned by the RIAA doesn't make all of youtube illegal, or web browers, downloading tools, mirror and proxy sites like hooktube, internet service providers, or anything else. False, wrong.
So its a shitty claim, from a shitty company and should be tossed in no short order. Unfortunately github is also a shitty company with a load of marxist infiltation in all of their policy documents and management teams so expecting common sense from them was never a strategy that was ever going to work either.
Since youtube has been up for 20 years with no prior claims that accessing it is illegal by anyone, the motive here is pretty clear. They are trying to keep content creators trapped and held hostage on the shithole that is youtube without tools to export their own material to other sites. And are also trying to prevent archival of channels that youtube want to delete in their entirety. Neither of these things are reasonable & within the authority of youtube, the RIAA, github or anyone else, so fuck em.
Brace yourselves, Bitchute is next.
A bullshit claim from this fraudulent group of record industry scum that have been up to the same shenanigans for a long time..
There's no protection to circumvent - its youtube, there are no protection measures. Unless you want to flag the videos as private, in which case the tool cant see them or do anything about it. So that part of the request is a lie. The tool isnt hacking into anything.
There's also no copyright being breeched by the youtube-dl tool itself since the tool is authored and distributed with an open license, which also make all forks that respect the license just as legally valid. RIAA dont own shit as far as the tool is concerned.
With regard to content on youtube, there's free stuff on youtube, as well as stuff the creators have permitted people to mirror, and then fair use is a thing for stuff which people dont want mirrored. A tiny subset of stuff owned by the RIAA doesn't make all of youtube illegal, or web browers, downloading tools, mirror and proxy sites like hooktube, internet service providers, or anything else. False, wrong.
So its a shitty claim, from a shitty company and should be tossed in no short order. Unfortunately github is also a shitty company with a load of marxist infiltation in all of their policy documents and management teams so expecting common sense from them was never a strategy that was ever going to work either.
Since youtube has been up for 20 years with no prior claims that accessing it is illegal by anyone, the motive here is pretty clear. They are trying to keep content creators trapped and held hostage on the shithole that is youtube without tools to export their own material to other sites. And are also trying to prevent archival of channels that youtube want to delete in their entirety. Neither of these things are reasonable & within the authority of youtube, the RIAA, github or anyone else, so fuck em.