Once an update is committed by one of our longtime Open Source developers it can potentially reach millions of users within minutes. “In our new update system, we update every client very frequently. This update of the third party tool was added to JDownloader 2 by an open source developer.
We removed that feature as soon as we got notified about it months ago,” Appworks’ Alex told TorrentFreak.Īs outlined by Alex, the feature to download RTMPE streams wasn’t created by AppWork, tt was a third party tool that in its newest version also made the download of RTMPE streams possible on top of being able to download regular RTMP. This feature found its way into a beta of JDownloader 2 through our Open Source community. “JDownloader can no longer be offered with a very specific feature – downloading videos that are ‘protected’ with RTMPE. The Court decided that this represented a circumvention of an “effective technological measure” under Section 95a of Germany’s Copyright Act.Īs a result the Court issued a preliminary injunction against JDownloader2 and threatened its makers, Appwork, with a 250,000 euro fine for “production, distribution and possession” of the Open Source Software. The Regional Court had ruled against a feature present in an earlier beta (not official) version of JDownloader 2 which enabled the downloading of copyrighted and protected RTMPE streams. That statement turned out to be a little overbroad and was soon corrected, however the problem was still fairly serious. This week JDownloader found itself at the center of a controversy when news broke that the Hamburg Regional Court had banned the software. Among other features it can download videos, pull files from countless file-hosting sites and finish things off by automatically extracting them.
One of the most popular is JDownloader, a Java-based tool that works on Windows, Linux and Mac. Downloading files from the web can be achieved via many routes but for some a download manager is the best solution.
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