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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by mrspeaker on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:54PM (#24910580)
I don't think so for youtube-dl. I think it's dead now. There was already hundreds of PRs to be merged - so many videos already weren't able to be downloaded on various sites.

The codebase was not the useful thing about this project: it was the constant upkeep and whack-a-mole-ing of the various site changes over the 1000+ supported sites.

This event may spark renewed interest and help, but my money is on "slow death" as support for sites and videos decays.

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by teruakohatu on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @03:15PM (#24910754)
The issues were mostly for lots of the niche video sites supported by the tool. The YouTube code base was updated as often as it needed to be.
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