YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by JackCh on Monday June 18, 2018 @06:11PM (#17342032)

Very annoyingly youtube-dl refuses to support bitchute for reasons that aren't exactly clear: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/14052

If I can't get data off bitchute easily using de facto standard tools (I get that I could use a bittorrent client, but that's beyond the point), I have little interest in putting data on it.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by icebraining on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @04:39AM (#17344753)

Doesn't seem so? Seems to me that some user @tv21 was arguing against it for some reason, and @dstftw locked the conversation to avoid the argument. The issue is still open, implying it's free to be worked on. Has anyone submitted a PR?

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by userbinator on Monday June 18, 2018 @08:35PM (#17342828)

It's open-source so... just fork it.

(I know you're not a developer, but this is a perfect use-case for forking and continuing.)

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by JackCh on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @12:46AM (#17343923)

Easier to just not put anything worthwhile on bitchute to be frank. youtube-dl needs constant vigalent updates to keep it working, maintaining a fork of it is a serious long-term commitment.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by lucb1e on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @02:05AM (#17344160)

Just pull in updates from them... No need to maintain it all by yourself.

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