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Just wrote this article to spread advice on this whole debacle, and my personal opinion. Hope it helps!

by resynth1943 6y ago

nudpiedo 6y ago
Why the argument of educational source code repository? It was clear that youtube-dl has always been used for its utility. And the deeper problem here is why aren’t we allowed to do whatever want to whatever is streamed onto our screens? TV shows could be vhs taped without issue as long as not redistributed. For sure we cannot take this fight against google with the American laws, but I think the software was morally correct and should be legally permitted.
- slaymaker1907 6y ago
  Yep, I actually subscribe to YouTube Premium but have used youtube-dl in the past when I had spotty WiFi to watch lectures. While streaming technology has come a long way, YouTube in the browser is still sometimes optimistic about how stable a network connection actually is and in my case was resulting in a lot of buffering whereas downloading the whole thing only took a few minutes since throughput on my network was good, it just sometimes would get huge spikes in ping. However, in principal I do think users should either pay for the content they watch or watch the ads and wish that it were possible for youtube-dl to include these ads in the resulting video so it were more akin to the vhs example. That would also have the advantage of reducing target advertising since you only know who downloaded a video, not who is actually watching it. Much easier to just run youtube-dl from inside a VPN and make youtube-dl relatively anonymous than trying to make your entire browser anonymous while watching YouTUbe. Yes, users can skip ads with the above system, but apparently skippable ads work on traditional TV with DVRs and VHS and also work for content creators who take sponsorships on YouTube.
  - resynth1943 6y ago
    > youtube-dl to include these ads in the resulting video If I were a betting man, I'd say this would result in an immediate fork that removes that.

Just wrote this article to spread advice on this whole debacle, and my personal opinion. Hope it helps!

Why the argument of educational source code repository? It was clear that youtube-dl has always been used for its utility. And the deeper problem here is why aren’t we allowed to do whatever want to whatever is streamed onto our screens? TV shows could be vhs taped without issue as long as not redistributed. For sure we cannot take this fight against google with the American laws, but I think the software was morally correct and should be legally permitted.

slaymaker1907 6y ago
Yep, I actually subscribe to YouTube Premium but have used youtube-dl in the past when I had spotty WiFi to watch lectures. While streaming technology has come a long way, YouTube in the browser is still sometimes optimistic about how stable a network connection actually is and in my case was resulting in a lot of buffering whereas downloading the whole thing only took a few minutes since throughput on my network was good, it just sometimes would get huge spikes in ping. However, in principal I do think users should either pay for the content they watch or watch the ads and wish that it were possible for youtube-dl to include these ads in the resulting video so it were more akin to the vhs example. That would also have the advantage of reducing target advertising since you only know who downloaded a video, not who is actually watching it. Much easier to just run youtube-dl from inside a VPN and make youtube-dl relatively anonymous than trying to make your entire browser anonymous while watching YouTUbe. Yes, users can skip ads with the above system, but apparently skippable ads work on traditional TV with DVRs and VHS and also work for content creators who take sponsorships on YouTube.
- resynth1943 6y ago
  > youtube-dl to include these ads in the resulting video If I were a betting man, I'd say this would result in an immediate fork that removes that.