'The YouTube video downloader removed on GitHub is not a piracy tool,' repels open source groups and journalists.
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The repository related to the YouTube video downloader 'youtube-dl ' published on GitHub has been deleted at the request of the National Records Association (RIAA), and 'youtube-dl is for copyright infringement' It's not a tool that has been used, 'argued by Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and journalists, a non-profit organization that supports free software and open source software (FOSS).
Asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over youtube-dl takedown demand --Conservancy Blog --Software Freedom Conservancy
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/oct/26/microsoft-github-riaa-youtube-dl/
Music industry forces widely used journalist tool offline
https://freedom.press/news/riaa-github-youtube-dl-journalist-tool/
youtube-dl is a program that allows you to download videos from video distribution software such as YouTube. The RIAA cites Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 'Youtube-dl and its related programs circumvent the technical safeguards provided by streaming services such as YouTube, and are owned by the copyright holder. The purpose is to copy and distribute music and MV without permission. ' GitHub promptly responded by deleting the repository.
GitHub removes YouTube video downloader repository, based on request from music industry group-GIGAZINE
However, SFC argues that youtube-dl has substantial uses that do not infringe copyright, giving examples such as:
· Allow users to watch YouTube videos without installing non-free software.
-Play videos at speeds not provided by YouTube. This is also an important feature for accessibility.
Allows manual changes to YouTube video quality settings due to bandwidth issues not recognized by the algorithm.
-Download videos that look like they are licensed by Creative Commons.
-Enables various support for journalists such as fact checking, video analysis, and bandwidth saving.
In addition, SFC points out that Microsoft, which runs GitHub, is a member of the RIAA and is stuck between 'law abuse by industry groups' and 'demand for FOSS projects.' 'This case is an important opportunity for Microsoft to confront the value of software freedom,' he said, urging him to resign from the RIAA and resolve the conflict of interest in this issue.
'We want Microsoft to refuse to give in to an organization like the RIAA and reject the DMCA's request, but as an alternative, Microsoft protests the RIAA and resigns. We believe we can take a step forward. We likewise call on all RIAA members who support the FOSS to resign from the RIAA. '
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Parker Higgins , director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), a non-profit journalism organization, is also one of the opponents of the RIAA's request to remove youtube-dl.
Higgins points out that youtube-dl has become important to researchers who are doing more and more fake news research and real-time fact checking in recent years. Also, the practical use of youtube-dl is common among journalists, such as downloading the movie you uploaded to YouTube by yourself using youtube-dl and making it into a portfolio, or cutting out the audio for use on podcasts and radio. It states that.
'GitHub hasn't publicly commented on removing one of the most popular repositories,' Higgins said. Downloading videos on youtube-dl is generally journalism and modern media literacy. RIAA's efforts to remove this tool have dramatic and unforeseen consequences, given that youtube-dl plays an important role in public media coverage and archiving. It's a potentially extraordinary overkill. We urge RIAA to reaffirm the threat and Github to completely reinstate the youtube-dl repository. ' I did.
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