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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by bityard on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:52PM (#24911729)
Not at all, I've been installing the latest releases of youtube-dl from PyPI via pip for years. In fact, it's still there. The RIAA takedown has had no effect (so far) on my usage of youtube-dl. The RIAA clearly doesn't have any understanding about how open source Python programs are commonly distributed.
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by clusterfish on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @07:51PM (#24913420)
Their actual goal is to harass and threaten developers to chill down development of such tools
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by mafuy on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @05:53PM (#24912383)
That's not wrong, but it is missing the point: Ongoing development is impeded by the takedown. That means the tool will not work anymore in the near future, rendering it useless.
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