RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by AshamedCaptain on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @03:10PM (#24910705)

(Not here, my distro has a backports repo, and I'd suspect a significant if not majority of users get it from a repo of some sort, distro or not).

And even then, where are users going to search the most recent version? You will definitely not preserve the same number of users if you switch from yt-dl being "one apt-get away/one FDroid install away/one pip install away" to "one bittorrent search/wget from shady .ru website". And let's not talk about how will people contribute. The project could be as good as dead.

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by Arnavion on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @03:18PM (#24910789)

I'm on a rolling distro and I still maintained my own copy of youtube-dl (with a cronjob to run `youtube-dl -U`) instead of using my distro's package. If I used my distro's package, every time it broke I would have to wait a few days for my distro to update its package with the fix, even though upstream would've cut a release with the fix within a few hours.

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