YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

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Post by fusl » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 2:04 PM UTC

YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
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Re: YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

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Post by vagrantJin » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 2:17 PM UTC

Superb.

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Post by envy2 » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 2:18 PM UTC

Excellent.

Looks like they've removed the tests for RIAA member videos as the only change, which I assume helped get this restored: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/1fb034d029c8b7...

Re: YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

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Post by Sebb767 » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 2:18 PM UTC

Here is the commit: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/1fb034d029c8b7...

It seems that only removing the test was enough.

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Post by nivenkos » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 2:18 PM UTC

Good news.

What if someone were to write a separate script that generated the necessary tests for youtube-dl?

Then prior to releases they could privately generate the code and run the tests, but still ship it not referencing any copyrighted material.

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Post by dutchmartin » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 2:20 PM UTC

So it seems that the dealbreaker was that one of tests that downloaded copyrighted material (see the last commit [1]). Seems like a reasonable thing to not do, and just replace those tests with just random cat videos.

[1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/1fb034d029c8b7...

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Post by themihai » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 2:21 PM UTC

Nice...I bet the evil RIAA didn't think only about the two tests when they reported the project....

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Post by boogies » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 2:22 PM UTC

Great, now they can import the issues to a GitLab/Gitea instance hosted by the same Germans who refused to ever take down youtube-dl.org, and a few other places for redundancy, and not have to go through all this excess stress again.

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Post by gbl08ma » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 2:22 PM UTC

dutchmartin wrote: post #6

So it seems that the dealbreaker was that one of tests that downloaded copyrighted material (see the last commit [1]). Seems like a reasonable thing to not do, and just replace those tests with just random cat videos. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/1fb034d029c8b7...

It doesn't work like that since certain videos use obfuscation methods that random cat videos don't.

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Post by IgorPartola » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 2:22 PM UTC

Well this was a wild ride from start to finish. Anyone got a count on how many times someone suggested distributing YouTube-dl via a blockchain in all these discussions?

Also, how come Google hasn’t asked for it to be taken down given that it has YouTube in the name?