Unable to download with a cookie file

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My question: Is it because something is not being exported in my cookies?

youtube-dl --cookies cookies.txt -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzpsyFvz7W0
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--cookies', u'cookies.txt', u'-v', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzpsyFvz7W0']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.07.24
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-14.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0.2, ffprobe 3.0.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] EzpsyFvz7W0: Downloading webpage
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 19, in 
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 422, in main
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 412, in _real_main
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1775, in download
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 682, in extract_info
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1226, in _real_extract
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 507, in _download_webpage
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 414, in _download_webpage_handle
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 394, in _request_webpage
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1985, in urlopen
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1002, in https_open
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1194, in do_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1053, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1092, in _send_request
    self.putheader(hdr, value)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1031, in putheader
    raise ValueError('Invalid header value %r' % (one_value,))
ValueError: Invalid header value 'VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=-1SnfnO39fI\r; PREF=f1=50000000&hl=en'

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Most likely you have invalid line breaks: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-youtube-dl.