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When I run ‘youtube-dl’ on your YouTube video will you live in fear for the rest of your life?

• hannasanarion 5y ago
  No, but youtube-dl isn't being marketed at video owners as a way to "take back control of your videos".
• xmprt 5y ago
  I've deleted/privated/unlisted a few cringy YouTube videos from about 10 years ago. I have fairly high confidence that even in the insanely rare case that my other videos become popular or I become a celebrity, no one will find those old videos. That's not possible with a P2P service.
  • sp332 5y ago
    It's about the same. If no one cares to seed and save your videos, they will not be accessible.
  • southerntofu 5y ago
    It's definitely possible. First because the list of videos you advertise on an instance/channel is dynamic, not an append-only log like on a blockchain. So you can properly delist a video from your Peertube channel and it will no longer appear to clients. Second, because even if people still has the infohash somehow and continue to seed it, there needs to be a mechanism to find other peers when someone wants to download the content (how did they obtain the infohash?). It's technically possible (although becoming harder with peertube moving from Webtorrent to WebRTC+HLS) but not a supported use-case (you'd have to write another piece of software for that). All in all, the situation is pretty similar to that of Youtube. Yes someone could have a copy of your cringy videos and decide to upload them elsewhere, but your followers would not automagically discover them. The same goes with Peertube, which is more federated than P2P in its design.