HTTP 403 Error when trying to download from Auvio (rtbf.be)

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[debug] System config: [Ubuntu 18.04LTS]
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[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
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[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
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Mostly permanent download failure (although at some hours it finally succeeds, after many tries)
Transcript below (username and password changed but registration is free - downloads have worked most often so far, since months)

$ youtube-dl --geo-bypass -v -u firstname.name@mail.com -p password --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36" https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_meurtres-en-lorraine?id=2444798
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--geo-bypass', u'-v', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'--user-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36', u'https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_meurtres-en-lorraine?id=2444798']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.10
[debug] Python version 2.7.15rc1 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-43-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, ffprobe 3.4.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[RTBF] 2444798: Downloading webpage
[RTBF] 2444798: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://rtbf.l3.freecaster.net/vod/rtbf/geo/drm/5/5He08asx4Z-720p.mp4'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1909, in process_info
success = dl(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1848, in dl
return fd.download(name, info)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 364, in download
return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 341, in real_download
establish_connection()
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 109, in establish_connection
ctx.data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2212, 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)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

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