youtube-dl is dead, or is it? 📦

17    25 Oct 2020 16:09 by u/VILLAIN

9 comments

4 u/WOKEfaggot 25 Oct 2020 18:36
Why would it be dead? It's just not hosted on github anymore.
2 u/None 25 Oct 2020 17:17
there’s a shit ton of youtube downloaders out there use those instead
2 u/None 26 Oct 2020 00:40
How about no?
1 u/None 26 Oct 2020 03:41
Alright then, suit yourself
1 u/None 26 Oct 2020 21:41
Find me one that has one (1) upside that youtube-dl doesn't.
1 u/None 27 Oct 2020 00:43
ytmp3.cc you can downlod to mp three
1 u/None 27 Oct 2020 03:44
...You can also do that with youtube-dl.
2 u/FigBatDiggerNick 27 Oct 2020 21:36
Everyone saying "use another downloader" is retarded Youtube-DL is extremely important, it's not just for YouTube and a lot of those youtube downloading websites are just a youtube-dl GUI with ads plastered everywhere. Fuck the RIAA for coming after Youtube-DL and fuck GitHub for taking it down, I'm glad this has caused the "Streisand effect" and more people are learning about this wonderful tool. Youtube-DL is just a tool, sure it can be used for legally questionable shit but it has tons more ways to use it legally. It's akin to going after bittorrent client developers or gun manufacturers, it's plain wrong and the response shouldn't just be "use another downloader lul" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS Similar event in the past, people protested by printing the code onto T-Shirts, writing it into poems, and one guy even found a way to generate a prime number that can be converted into an executable file for the program, creating the world's first "Illegal Prime Number"
1 u/None 25 Oct 2020 17:17
there’s a shit ton of youtube downloaders use those instead