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What is the simplest way to store source code repos in some decentralized file system? Like store git repo in IPFS folder, would others be able to clone it and submit pull requests?
Considering youtube-dl isn't doing anything a web browser accessing these sites can't do, essentially serving as a headless web browser with a convenient CLI, I don't see how this could possibly have a leg to stand on. It's like serving Mozilla a DMCA takedown for FireFox. I however welcome the highly visible reminder that github should only be used as a mirror at most.
Someone should issue DMCAs for the Chromium and Firefox repos. Fight fire with fire.
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I was thinking the same thing: The next step following this line of thinking would be trying to ban all torrent clients, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted material. This is crazy.
Why stop with torrent clients? They should ban all browsers, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted materials!
Many (thousands, if not tens of thousands) YouTube videos are being deleted right now, crazy censorship taking place. If tools like those get banned then it gets harder to keep copies of videos before they will be banned from YouTube.
And even a lot of unofficial libraries that allowed easier yt access. Dead in a go.
Do we have a cli alternative that does everything of yt-dl except the video download part?
You can download the most recent version of the YouTube-DL code from Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201018144703/https://github.co... Fuck the RIAA
ok so I might just be stupid but how does that link let me clone the repo?.....
git clone https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/youtube-dl
[1] - https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o7ilf8...
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What if collaboration on opensource projects (i.e. hosting, issues and their comments) was decentralized instead of relying on a central entity like Github? That would keep the developer base active and make DMCA takedowns ineffective.
keybase.io provide decentralized crypto solution, it's better to open source community to move on to such crypto soluion
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Calling the thing youtube-dl in the first place rather than GenericDownloadHelper or something like that could, I guess, be seen as marketing it for a specific purpose.
Sadly yes. Legally this was actually rather stupid. Giving the project an innocuous name - think of a cute animal that isn't already being used as an open source mascot - and not explicitly mentioning popular artists in the README would have made the RIAA's case harder to argue. As it stands now, whatever the ethics or politics, legally there isn't much of a defence.