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But now there is no official fork of youtube-dl, so development will either stop or be fragmented. And users will not want to trust any given fork, so downloads

But now there is no official fork of youtube-dl, so development will either stop or be fragmented. And users will not want to trust any given fork, so downloads will taper off. If the original creator endorses a fork, is he making himself liable? - not sure what happens if you repost after a takedown notice. And the involvement of the law, and the publicity will lead overall to self-censoring, as most devs won't want to deal with this... Doesn't seem to me to making things worse for the RIAA

swiley 6y ago
All the maintainer has to do is collect patches and release an updated version of the canonical source. This isn't something that happens only in theory, the kernel for the OS I'm typing on right now is developed this way. Github is more interesting because of eg issue tracking, but there are other ways to do that.
majewsky 6y ago
> But now there is no official fork of youtube-dl youtube-dl has made new releases after the takedown, so development appears to be continuing.
heinrichhartman 6y ago
Looks like the project moved to GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dstftw/youtube-dl/-/commits/master https://gitlab.com/dstftw/youtube-dl/-/commits/master Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24960039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24960039