Unable to download from videolectures.net: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: FORBIDDEN

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 youtube-dl -f http-416-0 --playlist-start 9 --sleep-interval 3600 --verbose http://videolectures.net/deeplearning2017_montreal/
[debug] System config: [u'-o', u'%(id)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-f', u'http-416-0', u'--playlist-start', u'9', u'--sleep-interval', u'3600', u'--verbose', u'http://videolectures.net/deeplearning2017_montreal/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.09.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-1022-aws-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: avconv 3.3.3-1ubuntu1, avprobe 3.3.3-1ubuntu1, ffmpeg 3.3.3-1ubuntu1, ffprobe 3.3.3-1ubuntu1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Viidea] deeplearning2017_montreal: Downloading webpage
[Viidea] 25892: Downloading JSON metadata
[Viidea] 25892: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Deep Learning (DLSS) and Reinforcement Learning (RLSS) Summer School, Montreal 2017
[Viidea] playlist Deep Learning (DLSS) and Reinforcement Learning (RLSS) Summer School, Montreal 2017: Collected 37 video ids (downloading 29 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 29
[Viidea] deeplearning2017_urtasun_structured_models: Downloading webpage
[Viidea] 25935: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: FORBIDDEN (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 503, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2168, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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