I like invidious.snopyta.org because its parent website seems to be a privacy focused organization, but is it actually good for privacy, and are there any other Invidious instances with good privacy track records?

  • ufra
    2•3 years ago

    Maybe on Debian, I don’t have any specific knowledge of their view of such things. I don’t think they have network or technological barriers to running it if they want.

    In terms of youtube, the takedown specifically calls (bogusly) out tos violations.

    As there, the youtube-dl source code available on Github (which is the subject of this notice) circumvents YouTube’s rolling cipher to gain unauthorized access to copyrighted audio files, in violation of YouTube’s express terms of service,3 and in plain violation of Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §1201.

    https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md

    • @southerntofu@lemmy.ml
      1•3 years ago

      Well like your quote says, the problem is infringing on DMCA legislation, not Youtube ToS (though Youtube ToS forbidding such use is what triggers DMCA arguably). DMCA is not a problem at all in Europe, where we have stronger exceptions to copyright (private copy, accessibility, education, etc…) but youtube-dl was hosted on Github which is an american company owned by Microsoft, so where US law applies. That’s why we need decentralized forging to redistribute the digital means of production.

      Further extract from the DMCA request:

      For example, as shown on Exhibit A, the source code expressly suggests its use to copy and/or distribute the following copyrighted works owned by our member companies

      Looks like we were both right :)