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Is integrating yts api "illegal" (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by IsoSpandy@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I am the developer of a project with a small community known as Offflix. Now I recently discovered that Yts has an api, and it is too irresistible for me to integrate it into my project as a simple in app click to download any movie.

So, would doing that and making the code open source be illegal? I am not a US citizen and I am not technically ripping movies, I am just packaging yts's functionality inside my app. Would github flag and destroy me repo if I do this?

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

GitHub definitely would and has in the past. YouTube-dl is on GitHub and gets a pass because it is used by researchers and archivists, both are fair use. forgejo.org would let you be your own fedi-github and might be worth checking out (could be easier than designing a plugin system and additional repos).

[–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Codeberg wouldn't mind according to that principle right? I cant fathom how a plug in would work when essentially adding yts would mean bundling a Downloader with a torrent engine and any system that allows downloading movies/series via torrent would get dmca.