YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban

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.

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.

I hate news sites that do not have publication date on news