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Though youtube-dl is taken down in Github it doesn't necessarly mean youtube-dl is going to be unmaintained, or at least the youtube-dl developers are not sudde

Though youtube-dl is taken down in Github it doesn't necessarly mean youtube-dl is going to be unmaintained, or at least the youtube-dl developers are not suddenly disappeared. What is the authors of youtube-dl's response regarding the takedown?

akerro 6y ago
moved to gitlab for now https://gitlab.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl https://gitlab.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
- Arnavion 6y ago
  The description blurb at the top implies it's not by the original maintainers. >This is a backup of https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl since it was taken down by the RIAA. >I'll wait to see what happens with the GitHub repository and the current maintainer before I do anything with this clone.
  - akerro 6y ago
    yes, looks like it. only member in the organization is https://gitlab.com/iruoy https://gitlab.com/iruoy who doesn't seem to be related to the official youtube-dl
- amelius 6y ago
  Does youtube-dl -U still work?
  - dmd 6y ago
    No.
rnhmjoj 6y ago
youtube-dl was already on a path to become unmaintained, or at least too slowly updated to keep up with the fast moving services it targets. https://web.archive.org/web/20201014194602/https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462 https://web.archive.org/web/20201014194602/https://github.co...
- mrspeaker 6y ago
  Yeah, I think the takedown effectively kills youtube-dl as it was. It was already a lot of work to keep it up to date, and you'd often get videos you couldn't download and had to wait for an update. The whack-a-mole updating is several full time jobs that no one wants to do: you don't get paid, and might get sued. I am grateful they did it for so long though!
  - toyg 6y ago
    I suspect the opposite will actually happen. The resulting Streisand effect will be a shot in the arm for youtube-dl or its immediate forks. A fairly mundane scraping tool is now a fashionable "punk" project that will "stick it to the Man". Mirroring it is already an act of civil disobedience; developing it you can now explore some interesting problems in the space between the email-only world of Linux kernel development and the centralized Github/Gitlab model (i.e. do for issue-tracking what git did for merging). And it's likely simple enough (it's a python scraper, at the end of the day) that it can mobilize large swaths of developers. Youtube-dl core developers should double-down on it, right now.
Santosh83 6y ago
Their continued silence so far doesn't bode well. Likely they don't want to take RIAA head on and will just let youtube-dl drop and move on with their lives. And that's probably what the RIAA counts on.
johnsoft 6y ago
>What is the authors of youtube-dl's response regarding the takedown? All I've seen so far is a blurb on the website https://youtube-dl.org/ https://youtube-dl.org/ >Currently our dev repository is taken down due to DMCA takedown notice by RIAA. >Downloads still work as usual.

akerro 6y ago

moved to gitlab for now https://gitlab.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl https://gitlab.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Arnavion 6y ago
The description blurb at the top implies it's not by the original maintainers. >This is a backup of https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl since it was taken down by the RIAA. >I'll wait to see what happens with the GitHub repository and the current maintainer before I do anything with this clone.
- akerro 6y ago
  yes, looks like it. only member in the organization is https://gitlab.com/iruoy https://gitlab.com/iruoy who doesn't seem to be related to the official youtube-dl
amelius 6y ago
Does youtube-dl -U still work?
- dmd 6y ago
  No.

rnhmjoj 6y ago

youtube-dl was already on a path to become unmaintained, or at least too slowly updated to keep up with the fast moving services it targets. https://web.archive.org/web/20201014194602/https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462 https://web.archive.org/web/20201014194602/https://github.co...

mrspeaker 6y ago
Yeah, I think the takedown effectively kills youtube-dl as it was. It was already a lot of work to keep it up to date, and you'd often get videos you couldn't download and had to wait for an update. The whack-a-mole updating is several full time jobs that no one wants to do: you don't get paid, and might get sued. I am grateful they did it for so long though!
- toyg 6y ago
  I suspect the opposite will actually happen. The resulting Streisand effect will be a shot in the arm for youtube-dl or its immediate forks. A fairly mundane scraping tool is now a fashionable "punk" project that will "stick it to the Man". Mirroring it is already an act of civil disobedience; developing it you can now explore some interesting problems in the space between the email-only world of Linux kernel development and the centralized Github/Gitlab model (i.e. do for issue-tracking what git did for merging). And it's likely simple enough (it's a python scraper, at the end of the day) that it can mobilize large swaths of developers. Youtube-dl core developers should double-down on it, right now.

Santosh83 6y ago

Their continued silence so far doesn't bode well. Likely they don't want to take RIAA head on and will just let youtube-dl drop and move on with their lives. And that's probably what the RIAA counts on.

johnsoft 6y ago

>What is the authors of youtube-dl's response regarding the takedown? All I've seen so far is a blurb on the website https://youtube-dl.org/ https://youtube-dl.org/ >Currently our dev repository is taken down due to DMCA takedown notice by RIAA. >Downloads still work as usual.