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Youtube-dl website has been taken down by Uberspace following court-ordered ban (alternativeto.net)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 85 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All they did was take down the website that links to the GitHub repository. They already tried to have GitHub pull it, and they did but then restored it and setup a legal defense fund for projects in similar situations which seems like a pretty big "fuck you".

This story is a nothing-burger, the equivalent of the blue bucket meme.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks to me it is just MS playing hard to get with Google.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The article doesn't mention that YouTube/Google were involved at all. It was the record labels that filed the suit.

... has been blocked due to copyright infringement claims by major music labels Sony, Warner, and Universal ...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, the article is not very good. Main players here are google and gihub. My experience with media is that they often don't publish everything, sometimes because of incompetence sometimes for sponsor money. So we have to use our heads a bit.

Not even mentioning google, not even.asking google what they think of youtube-dl, not even asking MS to comment. Give us at least a question and 'they said no comment'.

Not really good reporting and we got used to that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Why would they mention Google at all? Google can't sue anyone for Copyright Infringement when someone downloads a video off their site, because Google doesn't own the copyrights of the videos.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This seems like it would follow along the same lines as emulators and torrent downloaders. If you don't download anything illegal with it, you're not doing anything wrong. I use this software for work to download good resolution/low filesize copies of my client's videos. Hopefully I can continue using it.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All else fails, grab yt-dlp. It's a fork that I tend to find works better than normal youtube-dl anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I'm actually already using this fork! I do enjoy the level of configuration yt-dlp has

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

I don't even think you need to go as far as comparing it to emulators and torrent downloaders. It just downloads what's publicly hosted on the web, it's no different from a web browser basically.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They should just move it to a non-Western jurisdiction.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

It was a German court apparently, according to the article

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, that would be for the best.

Similar to how certain VPN/Mail clients/journalists (due to leaks) and others are in non-western areas.

I am forgetting some...

edit: word

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

There is some difference between private communication and open source code that smis available to anyone.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

There's already a fork

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

yt-dlp is an old fork, and very good. It's insanely fast.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

isn't yt-dlp the one to use anyway? I heard that youtube-dl is deprecated and dlp is the way to go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I believe youtube-dl are just slower at accepting merges. For example yt-dlp were the first to mitigate youtube's speed throttling and idk if the base project has it even now. It's still functional but may be slower.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's actually multiple forks, and that one's been around for awhile. I actually prefer the version you link, it's been more stable for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I didn't mean to say it's a new fork, but that the fork already exists. Maybe didn't form my sentence correctly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

I already pay to access the Internet, put your Ads up the butt. I will contribute to the creators I choose.