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Court Rejects Appeal of Youtube-dl Hosting Provider 'Uberspace' (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hosting provider Uberspace has suffered another setback in a German court. The court of appeal ruled against youtube-dl's former hosting provider, holding it liable for alleged violations of YouTube's copyright protection measures. The owner of the company is currently considering further appeal options. Meanwhile, youtube-dl remains available on GitHub.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Seems like the courts haven't caught on, but most people migrated to yt-dlp.

I do wish they rebranded the project to get rid of YouTube from the name. It can do so much more and is insanely powerful. It should be advertised as a generic video extractor. Don't know if it'd help legal issues though, despite them not actually breaking laws.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The courts don't care what software is being used now, they care what lawsuit has been brought to them. They don't actively pursue infringements by themselves.