The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues
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Re: The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues
#2With luck it will take them a few more years to figure out that yt-dlp and other forks with derivative names exist.
Re: The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues
#3I'm not sure what it says about me that my first thought upon reading this:
> an independent club owner in San Francisco tried to run a promotional video given to him for a band he’d booked, only to find Instagram’s filer blocked it. He was able to reinstate the video, 17 months after the band had come and gone.
Was "I bet that was jwz".
Indeed, a brief web search turned up this (via a recent-ish Cory Doctorow post on Medium):
Re: The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues
#4I'm not sure what it says about me that my first thought upon reading this: > an independent club owner in San Francisco tried to run a promotional video given to him for a band he’d booked, only to find Instagram’s filer blocked it. He was able to reinstate the video, 17 months after the band had come and gone. Was "I bet that was jwz" . Indeed, a brief web search turned up this (via a recent-ish Cory Doctorow post…
Reminder to not link directly to jwz.org from HN. Here's a sanitized link: (or right click above and open in incognito)
https://web.archive.org/web/20220121083848/https://www.jwz.o...
Re: The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues
#5I'm not sure what it says about me that my first thought upon reading this: > an independent club owner in San Francisco tried to run a promotional video given to him for a band he’d booked, only to find Instagram’s filer blocked it. He was able to reinstate the video, 17 months after the band had come and gone. Was "I bet that was jwz" . Indeed, a brief web search turned up this (via a recent-ish Cory Doctorow post…
Reminder to not link directly to jwz.org from HN. Here's a sanitized link: (or right click above and open in incognito) https://web.archive.org/web/20220121083848/https://www.jwz.o...
Anyone know why they block HN referral requests?
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminder to not link directly to jwz.org from HN. Here's a sanitized link: (or right click above and open in incognito) https://web.archive.org/web/20220121083848/https://www.jwz.o...
Anyone know why they block HN referral requests?
If you click through to JWZ from HN, you will see an NSFW picture with the following text underneath:
> Hackers News: A DDos by finance obsessed man-children and brogrammers.
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#9The interesting thing about this is that YouTube is clearly trying to make it more difficult for non-official clients to stream video, as is evident from the required workaround described here:
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326#issuecom...
The legal defense of youtube-dl is premised on the idea that there's no circumvention occurring [0]. I 100% support youtube-dl and I want YouTube to stop interfering with it, but I also think we're being a little too cute when we pretend like ytdl isn't circumventing anything... it seems obvious to me that YouTube is trying to put up roadblocks and we're trying to get around them. I would feel better if we could find a way to defend ytdl without the pretense of acting like this cat-and-mouse game isn't going on.
[0] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-1...
Re: The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyone know why they block HN referral requests?
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>I read his blog sometimes and all too often come away feeling disgusted. The comments sections are all echo chambers and his dialog on certain sociopolitical issues (recently, vaccine passports) is nothing short of fascist.
I used to read it frequently and enjoyed it, especially around the time he was setting up DNA lounge. Then after a while I started to notice this odd regression, as in, day by day it seemed to get younger and more naïve. When I eventually gave up it was like reading the livejournal of an edgy 15yo who'd just finished Das Kapital, or a stereotypical r/latestagecapitalism mod.
I can't imagine what's it like now but totally unsurprised to hear it's todays flavor of radically authoritarian leftism.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/12/digital-vaccine-passes-will...
>> "Your privacy maximalism is all very nice in the abstract, but continuing to cater to the whims of kooks like you is literally going to kill me and my friends."
Hahahah. Oh wow.
Something really weird is happening to a lot of people and I just don't get it. It isn't happening to me, so why is it happening to them?