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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by e12e on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:30PM (#24873748)
Youtube-dl works with many more services than YouTube, FYI.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by mulmen on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:23PM (#24874345)
Youtube is literally in the name. This isn't a compelling argument.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by e12e on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:51PM (#24874647)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200930093107/https://github.co...
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by mulmen on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:00PM (#24875268)
Yes, I know it supports other sites. That just isn't relevant.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by e12e on Saturday October 24, 2020 @08:31AM (#24878781)
I still don't see how the name is relevant to the general use (or not). You're saying youtube can invoke DMCA, but not vimeo?
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by mulmen on Saturday October 24, 2020 @02:24PM (#24880984)
Supporting other sites doesn’t change the fact that YouTube-dl is designed to do something with YouTube that YouTube itself doesn’t want you to do.

The name is literally YouTube-dl not generic-video-stream-dl.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by e12e on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:07AM (#24885994)
Ah, ok. So they should change the name to make that more clear (I think that has been discussed). Because it really is "video-and-audio-dl".
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