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lelandbatey on Oct 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

They did not put that in the readme. The README contains only references to test videos, videos that don't actually exist, and one small-time video (in spanish?) that seems to be an old test video, but I have a hard time seeing for sure.

The source code does contain references to copyrighted videos in the tests, tests intended to make sure that youtube-dl can download the data from videos using the extremely "token" signature scrambling that youtube employs for certain videos. You can see the test cases here:

https://gitlab.com/HacktorIT/youtube-dl/-/blob/master/youtub...

lovehashbrowns on Oct 23, 2020 [–]

There's stuff like Justin Timberlake in there and Taylor Swift. This was immensely sloppy considering how the RIAA has won cases before.

tyzoid on Oct 24, 2020 | [–]

But from what I can tell, these unit tests don't even download the video - just pull metadata.

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