Thanks for the alternative git repositories. I was already wondering yesterday what happend - well, "Die Gier is a Hund" or in almost english "Greed is a dog" :/
Nik Anno domini 2020 Mon, 26 Oct 11:47:25 -0700 spiralofhope scripsit: > TL;DR: YouTube-dl DMCA > > > ---- > > > The RIAA successfully applied a DMCA takedown to GitHub (Microsoft) for > an archivism program which downloads YouTube video/audio (although it > does target other services). > > https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/ > https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md > > I expect that YouTube will obfuscate the way it delivers content so > as to make the existing youtube-dl release (and other similar software) > nonfunctional (perhaps only for a time). > > Curiously there was recently a bit of drama and then a fork (also > DMCA'd) over the problem of urgent youtube-dl pull requests being left > unreviewed. I have no proof for this instance, but I've always > maintained that controlled forks, or for a few thousand dollars the > right developers, could be made to drag their feet and damage FOSS > alternatives / etc; it might be cheaper than lawyers, FUD, lobbyists > etc. > > The developer(s) are alive and its website still has a download, but > they're a hair away from being targeted more directly. > > https://youtube-dl.org/ > > Sure there have been "protest forks" already, but that alone doesn't > mean anything unless efforts centre around one in particular. > > Where other people will be focused on the code, I'm concerned about the > documentation. All of the wikis, pull requests, inline code-comments, > issues and their conversation have been purged. > > (Not many people even think to clone a project's separate GitHub wiki > repository.) > > But back to YouTube itself. The inability to download videos will > have an impact in that "inconvenient" videos can't so easily be kept, > fair-use commentated-upon, and (re-)uploaded. Everyday people wouldn't > be able to signal boost or contribute to a Streisand effect, making > videos (and people) easier to memoryhole. > > > GitHub is obviously untrustworthy for mirrors/forks. These are likely > to stay up longer: > > https://source.netsyms.com/Mirrors/l1ving_youtube-dl > https://git.datahoarder.dev/whalehub/l1ving_youtube-dl > https://gitea.datahoarding.agency/ZenulAbidin/youtube-dl > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
