[kwlug-disc] Now in the market for a new search engine...

[Doug Moen]

Youtube-dl.org's web hosting provider is being sued by Sony, Universal, etc. Wouldn't surprise me if this group has legally threatened Duck Duck Go, and they caved rather than fighting in court.

https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-dls-hosting-provider-fights-record-labels-lawsuit-220308/

Interesting that GitHub is not reported as being sued over youtube-dl. This might be related to difference between American and German law, and the fact that GitHub has announced a $1,000,000 legal defence fund for fighting any lawsuit to take down youtube-dl.

If the German lawsuit is resolved in favour of youtube-dl.org then duck duck go is then probably safe to relist youtube-dl.org.

On Sat, Apr 16, 2022, at 12:08 AM, Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 15, 2022, at 22:44, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>> The claim that DuckDuckGo removed Youtube DL from its search results looks dubious at best ...
>> 
>> Try it yourself. First result is Github's repo for it ...
> 
> That was mentioned in the article:
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> "*We don't know why the official youtube-dl.org website is not in DuckDuckGo's search results, but at least the official GitHub repository is still findable."*
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