TLDW; some troll is suing YT-DLP using DMCA 1201 to make ripping tools illegal. If that shit holds in court, it can set a dangerous precedent. OBS Studio can get taken down because it lets you record your screen as it shows copyrighted material, so it could count as “ripping software”.
I’ll start suing people for watching content because their eyes and brains are copying the content to memory.
this is fucking insane.
I’ll stop recording data you send me, when you stop recording data you take from me
unfortunately the suit isn’t against the people doing the recording. it’s against the people writing the software that enables you to record.
that said, I wonder if it’d be possible to then sue meta or google for illegally recording your “content”, aka data, based on 1201.
Clone and fork now folks
I have to update my yt-dl constantly. A clone won’t do shit because YouTube will update.
Someone around the world would pick up the mantle, there are thousands of ctontributors. The point is that the code isn’t lost in the blink of an eye.
Wtf. People have been recording tv and media to watch later since the days of the VCR …
Which is why this will fail even if it passes.
It is never impossible to record a screen.
“You wouldn’t download a screen recording”
