Nice to see youtube-dlc being reinstated. BTW, this fork was indeed active for a few months before the whole RIAA situation.
Due note, this is a new re-uploaded repository. The old one is still down.
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#22I am sorry to say this, but Hacker News became another reddit?! For past 1 week, I see similar topic being discussed every day on front page. I agree with the community empathy, but its becoming something else now.
This isn't about empathy. These are our fundamental rights of free speech and distribution of free software. These are the rights that Richard Stallman warned us would be taken from us. And look what's happened - nearly every video distribution channel is now locked, DRMed, and inaccessible. We now license everything we consume, and it can easily be taken away from us. (Google Play Music, the Stadia precursors, other…
It's not just the internet. Financialization and ultracommodification of everything is leading us into a future where we will essentially stop owning anything - as Klaus Schwab said: you will own nothing, and you will be happy (heh!).
Copyright is an example and experiment. Something that could before never be considered a commodity, information, became a pure commodity. This process of ultracommodification, in order to be functional, had the side effect of leading to the skewing of ownership into a renting relationship. The trajectory we are on is one where everything is becoming more and more rented and financialized. Because this is necessary in order to allow for more growth.
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#23I recently submitted this repo 4 days ago, and it was flagged :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24878283 Now this submit is on the top of HN, and I still don't know why.
Ok, but so what? Do you care about sharing with people (accomplished) or about getting karma points?
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#24This repos removed the famous tests some days ago under a commit message "COMPLAINFREE". These tests can be found by looking at the git history: https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/commit/dd2d55f10dac8... Would it be safer to thoroughly delete these tests from the git history?
Well the tests can also be found under the DMCA repo history too, so I guess we need to take that repo down.
If someone closes the PR and fully deletes the tree from GitHub then the repo should be fine.
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#25Does this repo fixed the issue with the unit test downloading a copyright video?
If the test was downloading a video; it's not a unit test. I know that the definition gets stretched, but at the very least, a unit test should be deterministic. A test relying on a network communication with a third party system stretches the adjective 'unit' to beyond usefulness.
What would a unit test look like for a tool that downloads videos from third party sites?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the test was downloading a video; it's not a unit test. I know that the definition gets stretched, but at the very least, a unit test should be deterministic. A test relying on a network communication with a third party system stretches the adjective 'unit' to beyond usefulness.
What would a unit test look like for a tool that downloads videos from third party sites?
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#27I recently submitted this repo 4 days ago, and it was flagged :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24878283 Now this submit is on the top of HN, and I still don't know why.
Ok, but so what? Do you care about sharing with people (accomplished) or about getting karma points?
I mean, it's kind of naff, but the karma points are there because people like getting them.
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#28Does anyone know why the README for this warns "DO NOT UPDATE using -U ! instead download binaries again or when installed with pip use a described above when installing." Why is that? Why leave the -U option there?
yt-dl binaries from the previous repo will update from that same repo, which basically 451s now.
Presumably, the update mechanism in this repo has been pointed to itself rather than upstream, and once you get binaries from it, you can resume updating them with -U.
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#29Discussed here 46 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24450560 (199 points/104 comments)
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#30What's preventing this one from being taken down too?
The maintainers behind this repo may also have more interest in filing a DMCA counter-notice.
The maintainers of the previous repo didn't get a chance to file a counter-notice. That's why many people are upset at github about this, they took down the repo (and all of the forks, I think?) as soon as they received the letter from the RIAA.