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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.
Now that 4chan is behind bars, it's time to sue the Internet!
I feel vindicated, but also sad that the end of this particular era has finally arrived :(
I would like to add to the discussion that there are many perfectly legal uses of YoutubeDL: * Downloading a video you uploaded and no longer have stored locally. * Downloading a video to create a fair-use response video. * Downloading video/music that is free commons (or some other non-restrictive license). * (Gray) Downloading content to archive it. * Downloading content you have already purchased and have in your…
what stops somebody from just screen recording your material? The end game is every device having a watermark detector. The PS3 wouldn't play BDs with pirated in-theater movies for example, due to audio watermarking.
That would be a concerning future, but thankfully one that would very hard to realize. You would need to control all hardware & software players, as well as all watermark removal techniques.
I guess the end-game is really just cloud-computing. If every device is just a dumb terminal, you don't really have the power to bypass any such measures.
Seems like a fresh mirror here https://gitea.eponym.info/Mirrors/youtube-dl to fork and start it over somewhere else. Gitea is a great project. Now we need someone to fork and publish it over Tor or something. Decentralized solution would be a next step. Diff between that mirror and the one from the web.archive.com looks good. I.e. no hidden/evil things inside. Looks safe to start over. ``` $ git log --oneline -3 48c…
This server uses git 1.7.x, so people with old installations can easily clone it.
Seems like a fresh mirror here https://gitea.eponym.info/Mirrors/youtube-dl to fork and start it over somewhere else. Gitea is a great project. Now we need someone to fork and publish it over Tor or something. Decentralized solution would be a next step. Diff between that mirror and the one from the web.archive.com looks good. I.e. no hidden/evil things inside. Looks safe to start over. ``` $ git log --oneline -3 48c…
Git: http://127.0.0.1:43110/1CXohM8XBz3mUGUR8w9CYXqdYt5JzfoPfi/yo...
Zip: http://127.0.0.1:43110/1uPLoaDwKzP6MCGoVzw48r4pxawRBdmQc/dat...