https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
This just... Wow. I can not believe it.
YouTube DL has been removed from gitHub.
Re: YouTube DL has been removed from gitHub.
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).
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).
Re: YouTube DL has been removed from gitHub.
You are still able to download the latest youtube-dl (2020-10-19) from the Internet Archive with the Wayback Machine...
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Re: YouTube DL has been removed from gitHub.
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
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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Re: YouTube DL has been removed from gitHub.
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
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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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.
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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Re: YouTube DL has been removed from gitHub.
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.Ty1003 wrote:just because something like this *IS* illegal in the U.S., and not necessarily in other countries, it's banned globally