Youtube rant - XTC - UMG/Virgin sucks!

[Thebobo]

Ok so long ago my friends got married and I recorded the video and added a little graphic and a song at the beginning with XTC Big Day for about 30 seconds. They moved away and lost their original copy so I put it on you tube since it would be easiest way to get a hour long AVI to them. It's not public just me and them. After all these years I get a notice that there is a copyright infringement and its been muted. What sucks is I'm not sure I have it anymore on a drive anymore. Seriously a total 0f 10 views and its basicly worthless. I did file a complaint but I doubt they will change it. I guess I learned the hard way. Nevertheless fuck UMG/Virgin for screwing with my best friend's wedding video.


Ironically the song is on Youtube now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xswAOJLgTi8

 

[lxskllr]

Yea, you can't trust anything to stay on youtube. The deck's stacked in favor of the big companies. I wonder how they mute it? You may be able to use something like youtube-dl to grab the video if the audio's still there. but simply blocked by the player.

 

[sdifox]

Normal people mail a dvd

 

[lxskllr]

Normal people mail a dvd

DVD?! I thought normal people used a file locker or other digital method. There's no reason to physically manipulate ones and zeros in the 21st century.

 

[Thebobo]

Yea, you can't trust anything to stay on youtube. The deck's stacked in favor of the big companies. I wonder how they mute it? You may be able to use something like youtube-dl to grab the video if the audio's still there. but simply blocked by the player.

Thanks, I am gonna see if I can find it I have a few drives not hooked up atm I need to check. I might try Youtube-DL and Python interpreter but it looks like a lot to learn for one DL. Are there other GI programs that do the same?

 

[Anubis]

should have just mailed them a cheap USB drive

 

[lxskllr]

Thanks, I am gonna see if I can find it I have a few drives not hooked up atm I need to check. I might try Youtube-DL and Python interpreter but it looks like a lot to learn for one DL. Are there other GI programs that do the same?

youtube-dl is extremely easy to use. For a simple 'get the video' deal, it would be

youtube-dl 'UrlGoesHere'

That's gnu/linux. I believe windows uses double quotes, but I'm not sure. Quotes aren't 100% necessary, but I always use them because problematic characters can mess up the command.

To extract audio at the best quality, the command is

youtube-dl -x 'UrlGoesHere'

To actually answer your question, there's firefox addons that'll grab videos. One I've used a lot in the past is flashgot, but it confuses me now, and I get inconsistent results. It's not as straightforward as it once was, and I end up getting the wrong thing. I don't think it's flashgot that changed, but the way media gets hosted on newer services. Soundcloud got especially weird, where one track is a series of small tracks linked together. Grabbing a clip should be doable, but requires a lot more work joining them together or something. I haven't been interested in it enough to see what it takes to get a full track.

edit:
Here's a general search for gui frontends to youtube-dl...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube-dl+gui&ia=software

I can't vouch for any of them, but there should be something workable there.

 

[John Connor]

I've had the same thing happen to me. Video was there for years then one day I login and tey tell me this video has copyright BS and I need to take copyright school. I shit you not. I had to click through crap just to regain my account.

 

[Thebobo]

youtube-dl is extremely easy to use. For a simple 'get the video' deal, it would be

youtube-dl 'UrlGoesHere'

That's gnu/linux. I believe windows uses double quotes, but I'm not sure. Quotes aren't 100% necessary, but I always use them because problematic characters can mess up the command.

To extract audio at the best quality, the command is

youtube-dl -x 'UrlGoesHere'

To actually answer your question, there's firefox addons that'll grab videos. One I've used a lot in the past is flashgot, but it confuses me now, and I get inconsistent results. It's not as straightforward as it once was, and I end up getting the wrong thing. I don't think it's flashgot that changed, but the way media gets hosted on newer services. Soundcloud got especially weird, where one track is a series of small tracks linked together. Grabbing a clip should be doable, but requires a lot more work joining them together or something. I haven't been interested in it enough to see what it takes to get a full track.

edit:
Here's a general search for gui frontends to youtube-dl...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube-dl+gui&ia=software

I can't vouch for any of them, but there should be something workable there.

Youtube DL was indeed easy and I'm all backed up thanks.

 

[Thebobo]

MP

 

[Thebobo]

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