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Re:New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1 by nomdep on Sunday November 01, 2020 @11:09AM (#24960373)
To use anything based in China will only cause more oppresion.
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Re:New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1 by mariuolo on Sunday November 01, 2020 @11:46AM (#24960647)
> To use anything based in China will only cause more oppresion.

How? It's not like China has the greatest respect for intellectual property.

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Re:New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1 by Santosh83 on Sunday November 01, 2020 @12:01PM (#24960787)
That's not the point. It'd be a symbolic admission of defeat to anyone from the US or a Western country to have to move to Gitee.
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Re:New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1 by pengaru on Sunday November 01, 2020 @01:38PM (#24961449)
> It'd be a symbolic admission of defeat to anyone from the US or a Western country to have to move to Gitee.

Maybe that's the point.

If all the valuable engineering projects leave the West because the West's laws are that dysfunctional, maybe the West will be forced to reevaluate them.

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Re:New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1 by fibers on Sunday November 01, 2020 @11:27AM (#24960497)
i don't understand? this is a pretty simple solution since these large megacorps are quick to enforce their own will on the FOSS community for bs IP reasons.
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