Re:Show HN: I made a site that lets you download entire Play...
by ugafan on Saturday September 07, 2019 @08:16AM
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Websites like mine have been around for ages they probably will still be around for ages.
The only thing I am doing differently is to allow users to download their playlists/channels in a little more comfortable way.
And these tools are freely available on GitHub, don't think that would count as living in the shadows.
and this is why we cant have nice things.
yes. there exists a tool called youtube-dl that anyone can download and do this for themselves. its not overly well known outside "i know how to use a console / command line" circles and this is a good thing. and it enables exactly this sort of "enterprise".
what this sort of low effort SaaS website really does is not democraticising such software for the masses. software that humanity needs. instead it will get projects like youtube-dl shutdown, all for a few ad clicks.
copyright exists. it is evil. but please stop trying to profit from tools that bypass copyright. let those tools live in the shadows so that we may all enjoy the fruits of their labour.