YouTube DL has been removed from gitHub.

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YouTube DL has been removed from gitHub.

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https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
This just... Wow. I can not believe it.
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Why can't you believe it? It's a tool made to download copyrighted videos by using circumvention techniques (it combines the purposely-separated audio/video tracks of YouTube), which is illegal in the USA. Not surprising at all. This is why Microsoft owning GitHub is bad: they'll bow to any legal threats like this. It also shows why developers should host their own projects instead of using the cloud, where the cloud owner can remove it just like that (snaps fingers). As the old saying goes: when using the cloud, you're just borrowing someone else's computer.

This is also why I use Firefox instead of Chrome, so my browsing isn't censored. (Chrome is owned by Google/YouTube, which is why there's no YouTube downloaders in the Chrome store).
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You are still able to download the latest youtube-dl (2020-10-19) from the Internet Archive with the Wayback Machine... :wink:
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That's only the code repository. Just download it from Pypi: https://pypi.org/search/?q=youtube-dl
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Here are more information: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/mas ... 23-RIAA.md
And some comments from other users: https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/b ... 3#comments

And here someone removed all dmca infringements from the repo, however that works: https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/b ... t-43529667
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Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not surprised, but personally think it's stupid that just because something like this *IS* illegal in the U.S., and not necessarily in other countries, it's banned globally.
Also, you can do
pip install youtube-dl
and all the code will be in PathToYourPython/lib/site-packages/youtube-dl
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:mrgreen: Haha, someone just added the source of youtube-dl to the dmca repository of Github: https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416 ... b1e3a4701f

Someone used a bug in Github where you can upload files to existing repositories without having the permissions to do so.
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Ty1003 wrote:just because something like this *IS* illegal in the U.S., and not necessarily in other countries, it's banned globally
It's not banned globally. It's banned and removed in the USA. Just because the developers didn't make it available somewhere else where it couldn't be banned under USA law, doesn't mean it was banned globally. It's the developers' lake of foresight that has made it unavailable globally; they relied only on a USA host and therefore USA laws.
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