Wikinews discusses DRM and DMCA with Richard Stallman after GitHub re-enables public access to youtube-dl

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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

On November 16, code-sharing and hosting service GitHub re-enabled the public access to youtube-dl repository, a software which can download videos from the internet via the command-line. This move comes after Mitchell Stoltz, a Senior Staff Attorney of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), sent a letter to GitHub on the behalf of youtube-dl’s maintainers. The repository was previously blocked on October 23, after GitHub received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) take-down notice from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Started in July 2008, youtube-dl is a free/libré open source software written in Python which can download videos from various websites. Citing alleged violation of 17 U.S. Code § 1201 Circumvention of copyright protection systems, RIAA’s takedown notice had alleged youtube-dl was intended to circumvent the technological protection measures of streaming services and to redistribute music videos without authorisation. youtube-dl’s source code had a number of unit tests to check if the software works in different circumstances or not. Some of the test cases included URLs of some copyrighted songs.

In the letter to GitHub, EFF’s attorney Stoltz said “This file contains series of automated tests that verify the functionality of youtube-dl for streaming various types of video. The youtube-dl source code does not, of course, contain copies of these songs or any others […] the unit tests do not cause a permanent download or distribution of the songs they reference; they merely stream a few seconds of each song to verify the operation of youtube-dl. Streaming a small portion of a song in a non-permanent fashion to test the operation of an independently created software program is a fair use.” The letter stressed “youtube-dl does not decrypt video streams that are encrypted with commercial DRM technologies”.

The URLs to copyrighted songs were removed from the source code on November 16, and replaced with a test video that uploaded on YouTube by Philipp Hagemeister, former maintainer of youtube-dl. Philipp Hagemeister had previously spoken about the takedown with Wikinews.

youtube-dl comes with a small JavaScript interpreter where it acts as a web-browser would behave while receiving video data from the server. The script has “extractors” for various websites to handle videos from different sources. “Any software capable of running JavaScript code can derive the URL of the video stream and access the stream, regardless of whether the software has been approved by YouTube”, the letter read. It borrowed an analogy of Doors of Durin from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings for explanation: travelers come upon a door that has writing in a foreign language. When translated, the writing says “say ‘friend’ and enter.” The travelers say “friend” and the door opens. As with the writing on that door, YouTube presents instructions on accessing video streams to everyone who comes asking for it.

Hours after the public access was restored, Sergey M, one of the maintainers of youtube-dl wrote on GitHub, “We would like to thank @github for standing up for youtube-dl and making it possible to continue development without dropping any features. We appreciate [GitHub] for taking potential legal risks in this regard. We would also like to thank [EFF] and personally [Mitch Stoltz] for invaluable legal help. We would also like to heartily thank our main website hoster Uberspace who is currently being sued in Germany for hosting our essentially business card website and who have already spent thousands of Euros in their legal defense.”

Hours after GitHub restored the public access to the repository, Stoltz tweeted “I think of youtube-dl as a successor to the videocassette recorder. The VCR empowered people to take control of their personal use of free-to-air video, but it had to be saved from the copyright cartel. The same goes for youtube-dl. GitHub did the right thing here.”

youtube-dl is used by thousands of people around the world. Multiple Creative Commons-licensed and public domain videos on Wikimedia Commons are uploaded via a tool called video2commons, which relies on youtube-dl to download media. youtube-dl also lets users download videos from LiveLeak — a video-sharing platform for citizen journalism. Videos downloaded using youtube-dl are also used for the purpose of fair use, or for evidence.

When a copyright holder chooses to release their work, be it a photograph, a video, or audio, under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, they allow everyone to freely own, share or modify the work as long as the reusers properly attribute the author of the work. YouTube also hosts many audio and video recordings in the public domain which can be used for any purpose without any restrictions.

In the blog post announcing “youtube-dl is back”, GitHub said, “Although we did initially take the project down, we understand that just because code can be used to access copyrighted works doesn’t mean it can’t also be used to access works in non-infringing ways. We also understood that this project’s code has many legitimate purposes, including changing playback speeds for accessibility, preserving evidence in the fight for human rights, aiding journalists in fact-checking, and downloading Creative Commons-licensed or public domain videos.”

GitHub also announced any new 1201 takedown notices will be “carefully scrutinised by legal experts” to reject “unwarranted claims”, and said it will side with software developers if the claims are ambiguous. The announcement also mentioned GitHub Trust and Safety team would treat developer’s tickets as a “top priority”. GitHub also pledged donation of USD 1 million for developer defense fund “to help protect open source developers on GitHub from unwarranted DMCA Section 1201 takedown claims”.

GitHub had blocked public access to many forks of youtube-dl upon receiving the DMCA notice in October. At that time, Wikinews noted public access was not yet restored for the forked repositories listed in RIAA’s copyright notice and was still displays “Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown”.

During the period when GitHub had disabled public access for the repository, Sergey M had been developing youtube-dl and hosting it on GitLab, another code-sharing and hosting site. However, since GitHub has restored public access of youtube-dl, Sergey M has made the GitLab repository private.

After this, Wikinews reached out to Richard Stallman, the founder of Free Software Foundation, who has been highly critical of DRM (digital rights management, the subject of the DMCA) for many years now, to discuss the harms of DRM and DMCA 1201.

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Why I Will No Longer Vote Democrat

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used to be a Democrat but I grew up.

Like all too many other people in this country I was a Democrat. I was raised a Democrat by parents who were Democrats. The first time I was ever introduced to the actual viciousness of politics was way back when I was in first grade and we had a mock Presidential election. When I came home from school that day I told my mother about it and she asked me with a smile and who did you vote for ? I told her Eisenhower because I thought he was a nice old man. My mother s face turned instantly from a smile to a scowl and she looked at my older brother and said I ve got a G D—– REPUBLICAN for a son! For the rest of that night I felt I had done something wrong.

For far too many years after that like far too many others in this country, no matter who was running for the White House or any other political office, I was for the Democrat. Like almost all other Democrats, it didn t matter to me what the candidate was saying or what they stood for in general, I was of the universal Democrat mentality which is nothing more than my school against your school . Nothing else matters but our side winning. As ashamed as I am to admit it, (because as far as I am concerned by doing so I feel that I contributed to what happened to this country because of it), I even voted for Jimmy Carter.

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It didn t matter to me what the Democrats did or who in that party did what, because I was like everyone else and too into myself and my own life to really care. When elections came up I voted for my school .

This country was winning in Viet Nam from the time Eisenhower first sent military advisors into that country all the way through Kennedy s escalation of our presence there, and all the way up to the point where the Democrats and the Media forced our withdrawal. Which was later found out was only months ahead of North Viet Nam s plan to surrender. It was like the Democrats were rushing to see us defeated before the North Vietnamese were. Because I was like most everyone else being voluntarily na ve and too into myself, it didn t matter to me that the Democrat Darling Hanoi Jane Fonda was solely responsible for the increase in torture of American POW s and the spurring on of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Regulars to where thousands more American lives were lost. Lives that more than likely never would have been lost if she had not shown up to rally the communist troops that she admired so much. Like everyone else in this country I was too into myself to even try and notice that the Marxists were completely taking over my party along with almost the entire Media and our Public Educational System and our Universities, where they could re-write history to their advantage as they did in the Soviet Union. When elections came up, like all other Democrats I voted my school against theirs .

All that changed in 1992 when my party put up as their candidate a sexual degenerate who had even put in writing his extreme hatred of this country and its military. Being a veteran I was a patriot, and there was just no way that I could lower myself to vote for him. It was time to admit that the Democrat Party of my parents was not the Democrat Party of today.

The Democrats always billed themselves as the party of the working man and that the evil Republicans were the party of Big Business and the evil rich. Finally taking time to actually investigate this slogan I found out that it was just the opposite. The Democrat Party gets far more money from Big Business and the Evil Rich , especially the Marxist Soros. And it turned out after looking at what they do, that it s actually the Republicans that are for the working man. But the Democrats will keep on using the slogan, and their followers will blindly follow it, because that s what their parents told them to do. The Democrats are also supported by Unions who try to force their members through intimidation and even occasionally through threat of physical violence to vote Democrat, especially the openly communist SEIU. The Republicans believe in Right to Work and openly free enterprise where all Americans have a right to succeed on their own. The Republicans represent individuality whereas the Democrats now represent for the most part mob rule. But it was by controlling the mob that the Marxists were able to overthrow the government and take over Russia to begin with. One would have to be an extreme simpleton to believe that they have any less ambition for this country. That is why as they were taking over more and more of our government and the media and our educational system, that they began to press more and more for entitlements , thus financially enslaving more and more Americans to where the government is now their sole means of support and they must do what they are told to do if they want to continue receiving financial support. That includes the voting process. There are those that profess to be conservative so called blue dog Democrats in that party, but they are only an amusement to those that actually now control the party. Even though these “blue dog Democrats” profess to be conservative, they still blindly vote party lines as instructed by their parents and thus their votes are only used to further what has now become the Marxist agenda of the party.

Also, looking back on this country after World War II almost all the major advances in this country were under the Republicans. True, Kennedy gave us NASA but it was Eisenhower who was responsible for us having the roads to get not only to Florida but around this entire nation to begin with. Reagan whose very name makes all the Marxists foam at the mouth brought this nation back from the razors edge of Jimmy Carter s financial ruining of this country, and also restored World respect for this Nation after Carter s age of appeasement. Both Bush 41 and Clinton skated on Reagan s success until Clinton left office leaving us teetering on the edge of another financial failure until Bush 43 immediately cut taxes which put more money back into circulation and because of that created more jobs and brought more tax revenue into the government.

Don t get me wrong, I m not in favor of what he did near the end, but that s the beauty of not being a Democrat anymore. I don t have to blindly accept and follow the party. However, what he did near the end is absolutely Nothing compared to the one that followed him. This one has placed this country in so much debt that I have my doubts as to whether we will ever get out of it. All the while blaming all that he and his cohorts have done on those in the previous administration. And as expected the party members blindly accept that lie. But in true Marxist form the Democrats will continue to blatantly lie over and over while doing just the opposite of what they say. And even though the party members can see with their own eyes what is being done, they willingly believe it when they are told that they really don t see what they are seeing and that the party is working for them and their best interests . That s the beauty of Marxism. Make the populace dependant and they will openly follow to their ultimate destruction. The Democrat party leaders could not even prove the citizenship of this present President which naturally tends to prove that he is most definitely not a citizen of this country and thus is holding that office illegally. But twice now they have produced obviously fraudulent birth certificates and told their followers to blindly believe it and the party members did. They could now say that Red is Gray and their party members will accept it as fact. But then again through their openly obvious agenda, are they not now saying that – Red – is Red, White and Blue? And are the party members not blindly accepting that as fact as well?

No, I just cannot go along with all of that. That is why I am no longer a Democrat. I grew up, and unlike the Democrat party I left behind, I actually remained loyal to the Constitution of this Country.

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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Viktor Schreckengost, the father of industrial design and creator of the Jazz Bowl, an iconic piece of Jazz Age art designed for Eleanor Roosevelt during his association with Cowan Pottery died yesterday. He was 101.

Schreckengost was born on June 26, 1906 in Sebring, Ohio, United States.

Schreckengost’s peers included the far more famous designers Raymond Loewy and Norman Bel Geddes.

In 2000, the Cleveland Museum of Art curated the first ever retrospective of Schreckengost’s work. Stunning in scope, the exhibition included sculpture, pottery, dinnerware, drawings, and paintings.

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Invest In A Las Vegas Air Conditioning To Bid Farewell To The Scorching Las Vegas Sun

Invest in a Las Vegas Air Conditioning to Bid Farewell to The Scorching Las vegas Sun

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Las Vegas – the place of pleasure, frolic, amusement, excitement, as well as shopping – is definitely worth its salt, but not in summer months when the summer sun becomes annoyed and appears resolved to roast anybody who slides out from the comfort of their air-conditioned houses. It’s essential to, therefore, call Las Vegas air conditioning service provider in the house and try to get your Air conditioner examined and repaired should you want the Nevada summer season to deal with you properly.

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Vegas is situated within the dry Mojave Desert, therefore the city and also the city area receives a lot of bright sunny days or weeks.

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I must advise you anytime I say bright sunny day or week, I would not indicate warm days of temperate climate zones in which people enjoy to go for excursions on bright days or weeks. When i state sunny days, I suggested sizzling hot and dried out sun-drenched days or weeks where temperate meets as well as is higher than 100 degree Fahrenheit.

The months between June and September tend to be extremely hot with an everyday daytime temperature (highs) varying in between ninety four and 104 degrees Fahrenheit, and also the nighttime temperature (lows) ranges between sixty nine and 78 degrees Fahrenheit.

Each and every year, on above 133 days the metropolis gets a daytime temperature of more than 90 degree Fahrenheit, additionally , on seventy two occasions (read days) the daytime temperature passes more than one hundred degree Fahrenheit mark, specifically in July and August when sun is in particularly bad mood, for the better part of the periods.

The city receives thirty eight hundred hours of sunlight each and every year, which translates into 300 sunny days, additionally , the rainfall in the city is very meager (only 42 inches) and rainfall occurs on merely approximately twenty nine days of per year.

Las Vegas air conditioning and getting yourself ready for Vegas sun

People have to equip themselves to remain alive and also fit in such the mad climatic conditions, and just those that have decent functioning air conditioners in their houses as well as offices, and of course automobiles can succeed in maintaining their mental balance in this heat.

In case you haven t had your air conditioning inspected, serviced, mended or perhaps changed then now is the time to call one of the most effective Las Vegas air conditioning provider and get it done, for anytime the mood of Las vegas sun can get bad and it may start toasting the area.

Call an excellent Las Vegas air conditioning people and permit them to take a look at the air conditioning systems in your house and workplace. The firm won’t just prepare your home and office for the coming summers, but it will additionally enable you to keep your energy consumption monthly bill lower. By doing this, the best Las Vegas air conditioning repair and services company can assist you stay cooler in summers while not burning up a deeper hole in your wallet.

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Rachel Weisz wants Botox ban for actors

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Rachel Weisz wants Botox ban for actors

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

English actress Rachel Weisz thinks that Botox injections should be banned for all actors.

The 39-year-old actress, best known for her roles in the Mummy movie franchise and for her Academy Award-winning portrayal in The Constant Gardener, feels facial Botox injections leave actors less able to convey emotion and that it harms the acting industry as much as steroids harm athletes.

In an interview with UK’s Harper’s Bazaar, coming out next month, Weisz says, “It should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen,” she claims. “Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?”

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Currently living in New York, she also mentions that English women are much less worried about their physical appearance than in the United States. “I love the way girls in London dress,” she claimed. “It’s so different to the American ‘blow-dry and immaculate grooming’ thing.”

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2008 TaiSPO: Interview with Ideal Bike Corporation and Gary Silva

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Friday, March 28, 2008

2008 Taipei International Cycle Show (Taipei Cycle) & Taipei International Sporting Goods Show (TaiSPO) not only did a best reunion with conjunctions of the launch of Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition and the concurrent cycling race of 2008 Tour de Taiwan but also provide opportunities and benefits for sporting goods, bicycle, and athlete sports industries to establish the basis of the sourcing center in Asia and notabilities on the international cycling race.

Although the Taipei cycle was split from the TaiSPO since 1988, but the trends of sporting good industry in Taiwan changed rapidly and multiply because of modern people’s lifestyles and habits. After the “TaiSPO Innovation Award” was established since 2005, the fitness and leisure industries became popular stars as several international buyers respected on lifestyle and health.

For example, some participants participated Taipei Cycle and TaiSPO with different product lines to do several marketing on bicycle and fitness equipments, this also echoed the “Three New Movements” proposed by Giant Co., Ltd. to make a simple bicycle with multiple applications and functions. As of those facts above, Wikinews Journalist Rico Shen interviewed Ideal Bike Corporation and Gary Silva, designer of “3G Steeper” to find out the possibilities on the optimizations between two elements, fitness and bicycle.

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Monday, March 15, 2010

An undercover investigation by Naperville, Illinois law enforcement has led to the arrest last Thursday of four people allegedly involved in prostitution. The stings came after police received tips that people were using websites like Craigslist and Backpage.com to sell sexual performances in Naperville hotels. 

Patricia H. Scoleri of Naperville was arrested after an unidentified neighbor observed consistently suspicious activity at Scoleri’s home. Traffic was unusually heavy and consisted mostly of luxury cars in an otherwise quiet, middle-class neighborhood. Also, the visitors were mainly middle-aged men, and an odd string of lavender-colored lights were hung on the front window.

Police say Scoleri worked alone. She was arrested at 2 p.m. local time (2000 UTC) and is charged with violation of anti-prostitution laws, anti-cannabis laws, and the Massage Licensing Act. She apparently has four children, but the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has neither contacted her nor received a police report on her.

The second sting occurred at 5:30 p.m the same day (2330 UTC) and resulted in the arrest of Chicago resident Tonya M. Adams. She is charged with prostitution and driving without a license. Another sting about an hour later resulted in the arrests of Jessica M. Walley, a Skokie resident, and Mark A. Williams, a self-admitted Schaumburg gang member. “Walley was charged with prostitution and unlawful possession of cannabis. Williams was charged with pimping, obstructing a peace officer, driving with a suspended license and driving without insurance,” reports WBBM News Radio 780.

All four suspects are free, having paid the required ten percent of their $1,000 bail. They may face additional charges related to crack cocaine discovered during the police investigation. Arraignment is scheduled for next month at the DuPage County Circuit Courthouse in Wheaton.

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Arsenic and Thalidomide may be used to fight cancer

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Arsenic and Thalidomide may be used to fight cancer

Monday, April 11, 2005

A gathering of more than a thousand medical researchers in Sydney, Australia, has been told that arsenic and Thalidomide — banned in the 1960s after being linked to gross birth abnormalities — held hope as a basis for new treatments, extending the lives of patients with an so-far incurable bone marrow cancer, multiple myeloma.

Diagnosis of the disease has increased by 45% in Australia since 1992. It is the most lethal form of cancer, and the topic of discussion, at the 10th International Myeloma Workshop, continuing until the 16th of April.

The two treatments had advantages over existing chemotherapy treatments, including lessened side-effects, and reducing the need for chemo- and radiotherapy. They may also be usable to treat other illnesses. Both were still under test.

“The development of arsenic dates back many years when it was used for lowering the blood counts in patients, even at the turn of the century,” Professor Miles Prince, of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, told Australian Associated Press for the 10th International Myeloma Workshop.

“Subsequently [arsenic] was used in China since the 1960s for treating certain forms of Leukaemia,” he said.

It could be used to induce the cell to “commit suicide”.

“The side effects with Thalidomide are much less than with chemotherapy because it’s not damaging innocent bystander cells – so you don’t get low blood counts, you don’t lose your hair, you don’t get a sore mouth,” he said.

“It was originally thought to work because [Thalidomide] blocks the blood vessel growth in tumours, and that is still true, but the research that we’ve done has shown that one of its major causes of action is to stimulate [ immune system ] T-cells which are directly against the tumour, and these T-cells help patients with myeloma fight their disease,” Professor Douglas Joshua, head of Haemotology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, told Australian radio.

“There’s no doubt that with the new combinations of drugs – we’ve got Thalidomide, the sons of Thalidomide, Velcade and arsenic – we’re adding years onto patient’s lives and certainly it could add up to five years or more,” according to Prof. Prince.

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