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Oh the irony of cloning a banned repo from a Chinese git mirror... c:\Users\david\dev\git λ git clone https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader.git

by dvt 6y ago

Oh the irony of cloning a banned repo from a Chinese git mirror... c:\Users\david\dev\git λ git clone https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader.git Cloning into 'youtube-downloader'... remote: Enumerating objects: 98560, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (98560/98560), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (30542/30542), done. remote: Total 98560 (delta 73037), reused 90045 (delta 66441), pack-reused 0 Receiving objects: 100% (98560/98560), 49.86 MiB | 9.58 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (73037/73037), done.

rmrfstar 6y ago
Were the developers in the habit of signing commits, or do we just have to assume that the gitee mirror is 100% legit?
- __s 6y ago
  Cross check commit hashes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24873953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24873953
  - mimi89999 6y ago
    Maybe you would prefer https://github.com/rbrito/pkg-youtube-dl https://github.com/rbrito/pkg-youtube-dl ?
    - kzrdude 6y ago
      ah, so at least some copies of the code remains even on github.
seotut2 6y ago
I got the tarball from the official site, using Internet Archive.
- jlokier 6y ago
  For now. Occasionally the Internet Archive is served with DMCA takedowns too.
em3rgent0rdr 6y ago
how is this ironic?
- Arnavion 6y ago
  Because the stereotype is that China is the one that bans the products of the Free West.
  - phist_mcgee 6y ago
    And even more ironically, china is one of the biggest patent/copyright infringers in the world.
    - zucker42 6y ago
      The fact that Chinese businesses aren't bound by the Western intellectual property regime is one of their greatest long-term competitive advantages. It remains to be seen whether the Chinese government will revert to intellectual protectionism once they reach technological parity with the West though.
      - kzrdude 6y ago
        They don't have a great justice system to start with, so the situation for their citizens is not great
names_are_hard 6y ago
Thanks for doing God's work here. Had to go all the way to the second page to find a copy to clone. What a ridiculous thing to ban. I've only ever used youtube-dl to grab copies of videos that I'm in but didn't upload, in the event that those videos were to disappear in the future.

by dvt 6y ago

rmrfstar 6y ago

Were the developers in the habit of signing commits, or do we just have to assume that the gitee mirror is 100% legit?

__s 6y ago
Cross check commit hashes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24873953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24873953
- mimi89999 6y ago
  Maybe you would prefer https://github.com/rbrito/pkg-youtube-dl https://github.com/rbrito/pkg-youtube-dl ?
  - kzrdude 6y ago
    ah, so at least some copies of the code remains even on github.

seotut2 6y ago

I got the tarball from the official site, using Internet Archive.

jlokier 6y ago
For now. Occasionally the Internet Archive is served with DMCA takedowns too.

em3rgent0rdr 6y ago

how is this ironic?

Arnavion 6y ago
Because the stereotype is that China is the one that bans the products of the Free West.
- phist_mcgee 6y ago
  And even more ironically, china is one of the biggest patent/copyright infringers in the world.
  - zucker42 6y ago
    The fact that Chinese businesses aren't bound by the Western intellectual property regime is one of their greatest long-term competitive advantages. It remains to be seen whether the Chinese government will revert to intellectual protectionism once they reach technological parity with the West though.
    - kzrdude 6y ago
      They don't have a great justice system to start with, so the situation for their citizens is not great

names_are_hard 6y ago

Thanks for doing God's work here. Had to go all the way to the second page to find a copy to clone. What a ridiculous thing to ban. I've only ever used youtube-dl to grab copies of videos that I'm in but didn't upload, in the event that those videos were to disappear in the future.