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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by Lammy on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @03:43PM (#24910996)
It’s about awareness, not distribution. How many people learned youtube-dl exists due to news about its takedown?
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by uponcoffee on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:15PM (#24911327)
Their comment was not about distribution, but on going development.

It's easy for an individual site to break youtube-dl, and it happens often. Awareness/distribution don't matter if:

A) there is no central repository for updating the project//distributing updates B) threat of legal action deters maintainers from the project

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by ghthor on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:21PM (#24913963)
It's a miracle that OSS ever was developed by large groups of people before github existed. /s
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by dredmorbius on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:19PM (#24914337)
If individual developers are subject to lawsuits and harassment for their contributions, some may choose not to.
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