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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by SimonPStevens on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @03:42PM (#24910989)
Not GP, but I understand what they are getting at. They were shortening to be concise. What was actually meant was...

"You will not be able to use it for anything because YouTube and every other video sharing website supported by youtube-dl will have changed a million times.

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by JdeBP on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:33PM (#24911554)
... which revision is equally based upon the erroneous premise that all of those WWW sites are the same as YouTube. Clearly, with all of the hundreds of "extractors", they are not.
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by SimonPStevens on Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:56AM (#24999773)
No, they aren't the same. But they will all change regularly and invalidate their corresponding extractor just as quickly.
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by dredmorbius on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:26PM (#24914379)
You're being gratuitously obtuse.

Acknowledge the point and move on.

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