YouTube-DL maintainer and core developer Sergey M declined to comment when we asked if the app's team planned to contest the take-down or move the source to another code-hosting website. Demanding its removal from Github is a disappointing and counterproductive move by the RIAA. Youtube-dl is a legitimate tool with a world of a lawful uses. The EFF said YouTube-DL has "a world of lawful usages," in a tweet: The RIAA stance here is pretty aggressive and out there." "It's super popular among archivists and has incredibly broad fair use applications. "As anyone who has used youtube-dl knows, it is an extremely powerful and useful tool for format-shifting," he added. "Anything that downloads YouTube videos is, per the RIAA, de facto infringing, independent of the intended use or the underlying content," Higgins said. Parker Higgins, a digital-rights activist and advocacy director at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, argued that the reference to the three pop-stars was "sleight of hand," and "the 'activity' that RIAA is claiming is unauthorized is hypothetical." The RIAA didn't provide proof of copyright infringement, only a complaint that the software could be used to bypass copy protections. "We have a good faith belief that this activity is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law." "The source code notes that the Icona Pop work identified above is under the YouTube Standard license, which expressly restricts access to copyrighted works only for streaming on YouTube and prohibits their further reproduction or distribution without consent of the copyright owner. "The source code prominently includes as sample uses of the source code the downloading of copies of our members’ copyrighted sound recordings and music videos," the RIAA stated. If you're wondering whether or not the RIAA is going to just start going after any software – like web browsers or simply wget and curl – that can be used to potentially download copyrighted material illegally, the association did note that YouTube-DL's source code specifically fetches, in its test code, copyrighted tracks by Icona Pop, Justin Timberlake, and Taylor Swift. Crypto guru Matt Green asks courts for DMCA force field so he can safely write a textbook READ MORE
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