In its submission to the EU’s Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List consultation, the group calls yt-dlp “a major problem for the music industry” and names four of its maintainers by their GitHub handles.
Ok, so add YouTube to the list.
There’s an EU piracy watchlist? Did anyone submit Facebook to it?
Sounds like a spam this agency project.
…Hmmmm… It should. If you read the linked article it claims the group lists X, discord, telegram and vimeo as sites that encourage infringement, so there’s that.
They describe the tool as an application that retrieves content by parsing web page data and interacting with platform playback endpoints, with GitHub serving as the primary delivery method for its source code, pre-compiled binaries, and installation instructions.
Omg, web browsers will be next!
You joke but killing general purpose browsers to sandbox everyone into curated apps would give most middle managing MBAs a priapism.
more than that, they want it filtered through their ai agent
Nice use of the word priapism.
Github after that
Git never needed GitHub and Microsoft is terrified people will remember that.
You joke, but even the browsers capable of parsing the nightmare JS calls, are restricted in resolution on free platforms. Not to mention any niche browser.
People have actually gone to prison for using the “view source” button in the web browser before. The RIAA mafia is deeply unserious.
Yeah, the content mafia really hates everything that makes us actually own something.
Because if you have it, they can’t charge rent to use it.
and they can’t keep collecting your privacy data to sell when you try to go watch it again
content mafia
Oh man, I just had flashbacks to the days we used to refer to the riaa/mpaa as the MAFIAA
Company happly sends media to my computer when requested.
Company angry my computer do what I want with the media it got.
All of it is strings of ones and zeros that are instructions that tell my computer what to display.
Its basic freedom of speech. Imagine not beign able to give instructions in other contexts because you didn’t pay to use the words.
wait until they hear about vhs recorders 🙄
Nah, bro. I’m using it to train my ai. Trust me bro.
In Sweden you are allowed to make copies for private useage. I can record and save whatever piece of media I want, as long as I don’t distribute it to other people and the material itself is not illegal (abuse material for example).
The problem in cases like this is not the copying, but the ability to bypass DRM. Creating and distributing tools that can do that is illegal in the US due to the DMCA. I think there are similar laws in the EU but I’m not sure.
Bypassing copy protection is not a crime in my country. The DMCA is a joke here and TPB creators knew it. Unfortunately the media companies used their threats of sanction on Sweden if they were not persecuted. Straight up maffia tactics.
Edit: TPB wasn’t really relevant to copy protection but I brought it up because of DMCA. TPB never hosted any copyrighted content and should not have been held liable.
I grew up in a town with a huge standing weekly flea market everyone knew about where everyone knew you were buying stolen stuff, fake IDs, bootlegs, etc. The way I finally convinced my family that TPB wasn’t illegal was by asking them if it was a crime to tell someone where the flea market was.
The funny part is if you could buy fake IDs then technically it was a crime to tell them where the flea market was.
Knowing where to commit a crime is not illegal.
Aiding and abetting is though my dude.
Telling someone how to do a thing isn’t aiding and abetting.
If I tell you that you can kill someone by shoving them off the Brooklyn Bridge, I’m not potentially taking part in a homicide.
No, drm of that kind is also illegal
DRM of what kind is illegal where?
You’re going to get downvoted because pirates, by and large, feel entitled to other people’s labor for free. I’ve been pirating for two+ decades and I’m fully aware that what I’m doing is wrong. It’d be great if people could stop trying to justify their actions.
Its actually the capitalist class that feels entitled to other people labor for “free”, or grossly underpaid
Their labor was already exploited before it became a product for you to download
Think of the poor billionaires!
Piracy is morally right, we don’t owe them anything.
We see that copyright only matters to them if it is convenient, the latest example is training AI on copyrighted works without licenses. But there are many others.
It is also ironic that copyright was originally created to protect small authors from having a big corporation steal their creation and profit from it. Which is still happening. This is also the reason why originally copyright supposed to last 14 years. Because it was thought that 14 years was long enough time to have monopoly on idea
Only after corporations started bribing politicians they extended it to such ridiculous times and completely changed what copyright really was.
I didn’t make a statement on the morality of piracy, though. I only stated a fact about the DMCA and said I’m not sure what the EU situation is, hoping someone might know and add to the discussion. If people are downvoting me because they think I said piracy is bad, as you believe, then they are imagining things.
Personally, I think piracy is totally fine most of the time. The copyright system is immoral and does much more harm than good. Case in point, downloading a video from youtube should be allowed and the DMCA is working against the interest of the average person in making it illegal.
Allow me to explain why piracy can’t die in a way buisness majors can understand.
She’s gorgeous. She’s fantastic in bed. She pegs you and won’t tell anybody. You want to marry her.
You will be subjected to nonstop crazy bullshit for the rest of your life. She’s no longer fun, just expensive. She’s abusive. Nobody is happy.
And now she has ads.
You drink more. You stop coming home after work until she’s asleep. You refer to local hookers by their legal first names.
One day she throws a clot and dies. And you feel relief. The abuse, the lies, the manipulation, the pretending to be happy is finally done. You are free.
This in an anolgy for streaming services.
You refer to local hookers by their legal first names.
😆
You’ve met thier kids…
Yeah butt no more pegging 😔.
Now can the IFPI treat genAI vendors as “commercialized piracy outlets”?
When I first got into emulation as a very early teen, I’ve heard a rumor about an admin of an Amiga ROM site being shot to death for piracy. However, nothing similar comes to against those who do it on an industrial scale, specifically to destroy a portion of the human experience.
The justice system will continue to be two-tiered until the ruling class decides that they want to stop being corrupt, sorry
The justice system will continue to be two-tiered until the
rulingEpstein classdecides that they want to stop being corrupthangs from the trees, sorryFixed that for you.
Thank you, I like what you did with it
of course they are crying about piracy again.
the music industry cries about piracy every time their sales slump.
Couldnt possibly be 90% of music is copy and paste slop. not to mention the rise of actual AI slop “music”
This is the equivalent of calling right-clicking on a picture piracy. Utterly insane.
There are scripts on some sites that attempt to block right-click saving, you know.
Next up: uBlock Origin filters get called piracy
Fyi, if you didn’t know: Shift + Right Click in Firefox always brings up the context menu, even if JavaScript tries to block it.
They already have been
I don’t think these assholes understand that its a VERY useful tool for archiving the internet, which helps keep powerful people accountable. We must fight to keep this tool so that journalists and activists can keep speaking truth to power.
These assholes understand that perfectly. They represent rich and powerful people who don’t like being held accountable, and who treasure the ability to keep selling you shit without you actually owning it.
They are the powerful people, and they know why they don’t want to be kept accountable.
Man fuck them. A garden hose is a tool, just because I can choke my asshole neighbor to death with it doesn’t make it a garrote.
This sounds like one of those Internet comments that eventually winds up getting entered as evidence
It’s ok, I already told the FBI agent watching me that it was a joke.
cassette tapes are going to melt their brains
Wait till you learn that most European countries require you to pay a protection fee to these fuckheads every time you buy anything capable of storing data including hard drives, SD cards, blank CDs etc. just because you could maybe store pirated music on them.
Man, the industry pushed so hard into cd’s to get away from tape and recordable media.
It’s not like you couldn’t burn CDs back in the day from limewire rips. I still use SoulSeek.
When the CD format was ratified, the media consortium did not foresee home CD production. It was a mass-production, high-tolerance plastic-pressing affair.
Just so you know, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) represents around 8,000 music labels across 70 countries.
Chucklefucks. Some unsigned artists, especially underground rappers, uploaded their tracks to Youtube, long before Facebook video and Spotify. That I also use DLP to grab very interesting videos before they can be unlisted or deleted.
Which of course ends up being a boon for said underground artists to actually get a chance to spread via word-of-mouth. Can’t have someone actually have success and creative freedom, no sir!
