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Yout LLC. Sues RIAA Over YouTube-DL DMCA Complaints

posted by martyb on Wednesday October 28 2020, @07:27PM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

RIAA Sued By YouTube-Ripping Site Over DMCA Anti-Circumvention Notices

A company operating a YouTube-ripping platform has sued the RIAA for sending "abusive" DMCA anti-circumvention notices to Google. According to the complaint and contrary to the RIAA's claims, the Yout service does not "descramble, decrypt, avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair" YouTube's rolling cipher technology.

Last Friday, the RIAA caused [outrage] on the Internet when it filed a complaint that took down the open source software YouTube-DL from Github.

According to the RIAA, the "clear purpose" of YouTube-DL was to "circumvent the technological protection measures used by authorized streaming services such as YouTube" and "reproduce and distribute music videos and sound recordings owned by our member companies without authorization for such use."

As the debate and controversy over the complaint rages on, a company based in the US that operates a YouTube-ripping platform has filed a lawsuit alleging that similar complaints, filed by the RIAA with Google, have caused its business great damage.

RIAA's YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub's CEO

An RIAA takedown request, which removed the YouTube-DL repository from GitHub, has ticked off developers and GitHub's CEO. Numerous people responded by copying and republishing the contested code, including in some quite clever ways. Meanwhile, GitHub's CEO is "annoyed" as well, offering help to get the repo reinstated.

Yout v. RIAA complaint.

Previously: GitHub has Received a DMCA Takedown from RIAA for youtube-dl

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Zinnia Zirconium on Thursday October 29 2020, @03:21AM (1 child)

    by Zinnia Zirconium (11163) on Thursday October 29 2020, @03:21AM (#1070214) Homepage Journal

    # 24-Jun-2013: When use_cipher_signature=True, the signature must be
    # translated from lengths ranging from 82 to 88 back down to the
    # original, unciphered length of 81 (40.40).
    #
    # This is not crypto or a hash, just a character-rearrangement cipher.
    # Total security through obscurity. Total dick move.

    Haha! So very convincing. Gonna get that github repo back in no time, boys.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday October 30 2020, @07:56AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Friday October 30 2020, @07:56AM (#1070768) Homepage
    If it says "cipher", then it's crypto, even if they're asserting it's crapto-crypto.
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