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lowpolybrain
I hate news sites that do not have publication date on news
1vuio0pswjnm7
Agree. Although it's often in the page source:

   "datePublished":"2023-08-09T10:11:54+01:00"
   "dateModified":"2023-08-09T10:11:54+01:00"
   "description":"Hosting provider Uberspace has taken down the website of youtube-dl after being held responsible for the website linking to the software on GitHub."
askl
What do you mean? It's below the title and says "today by Ernesto Van der Sar". For older news it will show date, month and year.
1vuio0pswjnm7
I have noticed that YouTube no longer requires the "rolling cipher" for unthrottled downloads. Also, it appears this court was not made aware that users can still perform throttled downloads without using the "rolling cipher" and without "youtube-dl". The download links are in the YouTube page source, as is the case for hundreds of other video sharing sites across the web. If YouTube really wanted to stop users from downloading it could easily do so, by removing those links from the page, for starters.
zackees
China and other nation states are certainly using this feature to scrap all publicly available content to monitor political discourse.

I doubt Sony/RIAA comes close to that weight.

thefurdrake
Another craven, pathetic, and impotent tantrum by Sony and Friends.

This will achieve nothing, waste their lawyers' time, and drain their legal budget, which is great for the rest of humanity, really.

It's really unfortunate the folks at the RIAA don't have two braincells to rub together, or they'd realize you can't get rid of open source software by issuing takedowns.

You know, even though they've tried takedowns many times. Pirate bay's still up.