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

Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by xiphias2 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @05:05PM (#24911881)

I love that youtube for me works everywhere: on my iPad, Samsung phone and my smart TV, laptop, the offline viewing mode is better than in any other application. None of these are hard to replicate, but it's still a lot of work (and some of the devices that I mentioned are walled gardens).

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by dredmorbius on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:15PM (#24914313)

Youtube works poorly on my Android tablet, my aging Linux desktop, and even on a recent iMac, the flexibility of mpv, mps-youtube, or VLC is often preferable.

More options are more options, surprisingly enough.

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by tpxl on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @07:54PM (#24913441)

A plethora of video players support playing from a network source. You can watch youtube via VLC! The technology is not a problem, the network is.

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