How journalists use youtube-dl

Re:How journalists use youtube-dl by qwerty456127 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @07:42AM (#24906457)

> Mourning the loss of ytdl myself but trying to be realistic)

It's just a GitHub repository which is lost, not ytdl itself.

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Re:How journalists use youtube-dl by johnmaguire2013 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:33AM (#24907217)

So - if the issue is really the marketing around youtube-dl, does this mean someone can create a fork named something else, use different marketing, and carry on?

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Re:How journalists use youtube-dl by qwerty456127 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:25PM (#24911442)

I can see no reason why not. Just don't put it on GitHub, put it on a private hosting in a country unfriendly to copyright trolls.

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