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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by hombre_fatal on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @07:44PM (#24913375)
Looks like there's more to it.

https://gitlab.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/-/blob/master/youtube...

When I think of what it's like being an engineer (regardless of field), I think of the distance between "isn't the solution as simple as...?" and what the project actually looks like after a year in production after encountering the full domain of things that can go wrong.

Though youtube-dl also simply does more than what you're assuming. And ctrl-f for "drm".

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by keeganpoppen on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @11:02PM (#24914621)
the mentions of drm in that code seem completely trivial to me
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by hombre_fatal on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:38AM (#24915592)
True, if anything it just seems to do nothing. Though don't let me distract from the rest of the code. Just seems like initially simple code slowly encumbered by if-conditions in response to real world obstacles and feature creep.
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