livestream - SMIL file: Error 503:

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

./youtube-dl -v https://livestream.com/accounts/1543792/events/7927633/videos/165817202
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://livestream.com/accounts/1543792/events/7927633/videos/165817202']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.11.15
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 - Linux-4.9.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-9.2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.5, ffprobe 3.3.5, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[livestream] 165817202: Downloading JSON metadata
[livestream] 165817202: Downloading SMIL file
ERROR: Unable to download SMIL file: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 506, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2196, 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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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Trying to download a livestream.com video from https://livestream.com/accounts/1543792/events/7927633 results in "ERROR: Unable to download SMIL file: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable".