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This recent takedown will only make more people know about YouTube-Dl and hopefully create more forks. When will these big companies learn!?
by superasn 6y ago
This recent takedown will only make more people know about YouTube-Dl and hopefully create more forks. When will these big companies learn!?
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- baal80spam 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
- rnhmjoj 6y agoThe takedown may spark new life to the project development, which severely slowed down in the last months because there are too few maintainers.
- danso 6y agoPlenty of people used and knew about youtube-dl already. It's made the front page of HN multiple times [0]. I've used it as a key example of why/how non-programmers should learn to use the command-line. People who weren't already aware or didn't care to learn aren't going to be significantly moved now. [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=youtube-dl https://hn.algolia.com/?q=youtube-dl