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4815162342@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 4 years ago

Reddit Orders 'SaveVideo' Bot to Shut Down or Face Lawsuit * TorrentFreak

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Reddit Orders 'SaveVideo' Bot to Shut Down or Face Lawsuit * TorrentFreak

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4815162342@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 4 years ago
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The 'savevideo' bot that helped people to download and save videos from Reddit has been ordered to shut down or face a lawsuit.
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  • loki@lemmy.ml
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    plagiarise content for us, not from us

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ml
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    False take down request

    https://old.reddit.com/user/SaveVideo/comments/ojohbq/update_savevideo_is_back/

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    They should open source it if it isn’t already.

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    I checked the browser requests on a reddit video, and they intentionally split the audio and video feeds to make it difficult to export.

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      I wonder if that is rather to make it so that people scrolling through with the sound off aren’t pulling down sound unnecessarily.

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    Bots facing lawsuits… ah the future of mankind. This is what we all dreamt in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

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    This is just ridiculous, Reddit is going downhill fast

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    It’s interesting to see that Reddit’s comment was that they didn’t send the litigation threats.

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    I don’t get why people don’t just use youtube-dl rather than flooding the comments

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      Some people don’t even know how to run command-line apps (or can’t, because they only use an iOS device) or where to even get started, just summoning a bot is simple and doesn’t require a lot of knowledge.

      YouTube-DL works well for me, but I understand not everyone wants to deal with that.

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    bots are not lowkey

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