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I don't think this inspired fear in any relevant developers. If anything there are probably more developers willing to work on it now.

• IggleSniggle 6y ago
  Yuuup. I haven’t used youtube-dl since I was a teacher and needed it to bring educational videos into the classroom that lacked Internet. But now I have a copy of the source, and have been thinking about how I might contribute and/or repackage it as a “browser” (with the option to run it in “headless mode”, of course).
  • sp332 6y ago
    You have a snapshot of the source, which will be less useful over time as sites change their code and the plugins stop working.
    • Vorh 6y ago
      ...yes, that's how downloading works.
• dmix 6y ago
  It also brought tons of attention to youtube-dl itself, which is still widely available and will remain so for basically ever (apologies for rewording the Striesand Effect but it is very real).