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Re: YouTube-DL Gitlab Backup Repository

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Post by _bxe2 »

Gitlab is not immune to DMCA notices either since it's a US company. The RIAA probably won't try to take it down unless the youtube-dl development is actually relocated there or they become aware of it somehow. You'd have to host it in a country where DMCA can safely be ignored (anonymously of course), e.g. the Netherlands or Russia, if you want it to stay up reliably.

Re: YouTube-DL Gitlab Backup Repository

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Post by INTPenis »

_bxe2 wrote: post #3

Gitlab is not immune to DMCA notices either since it's a US company. The RIAA probably won't try to take it down unless the youtube-dl development is actually relocated there or they become aware of it somehow. You'd have to host it in a country where DMCA can safely be ignored (anonymously of course), e.g. the Netherlands or Russia, if you want it to stay up reliably.

So true.

But to me as a long time Gitlab fan this shows the power of using Gitlab. Because if they were using Gitlab when the DMCA hits they could have easily migrated to their own Gitlab instance.

While Github would have to export things into another format. I'm sure people have worked on exporting data from Github to Gitlab but it seems much easier to just use Gitlab.

Edit: And of course besides data, you can't migrate contributors as easy. Which is also where Gitlab is powerful because it's open source and people are actually discussing federation in it. I doubt Github will ever get any kind of federation outside of microsoft services.

Re: YouTube-DL Gitlab Backup Repository

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Post by input_sh »

spurgu wrote: post #4

Curious in general how often Youtube breaks things on their end, i.e. how long roughly this specific version of youtube-dl is expected to keep working without any active development?

git pull the repo, cd into it, and do `git log --follow -- youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py`.

Re: YouTube-DL Gitlab Backup Repository

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Post by input_sh »

_bxe2 wrote: post #3

Gitlab is not immune to DMCA notices either since it's a US company. The RIAA probably won't try to take it down unless the youtube-dl development is actually relocated there or they become aware of it somehow. You'd have to host it in a country where DMCA can safely be ignored (anonymously of course), e.g. the Netherlands or Russia, if you want it to stay up reliably.

Gitee.com is a popular Chinese alternative. I'm pretty sure it'd be safe there.

Re: YouTube-DL Gitlab Backup Repository

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Post by stevefan1999 »

input_sh wrote: post #8
_bxe2 wrote: post #3

Gitlab is not immune to DMCA notices either since it's a US company. The RIAA probably won't try to take it down unless the youtube-dl development is actually relocated there or they become aware of it somehow. You'd have to host it in a country where DMCA can safely be ignored (anonymously of course), e.g. the Netherlands or Russia, if you want it to stay up reliably.

Gitee.com is a popular Chinese alternative. I'm pretty sure it'd be safe there.

I don't think so. Youtube-DL can rip some popular Chinese VOD websites such as Bilibili and iQIYI, thus will first be "subjectable" to the Chinese equivalent of DMCA.

Worse, these companies are often backed/protected by powerful figures (often under the umbrella of some influential state members) and under such power, these kind of "threats" will be eradicated very efficiently, especially with Bilibili which is partially "state-monitored" (not sure if sponsored) due to the presence of the channel of the official youth branch of CCP is opened there [1].

Thus, relocating your repository to gangs aren't safe at all.

A rule of thumb: The prerequisite for your business to survive in China is that you need to have powerful affiliates, and make sure you do not piss off that powerful guy.

[1]: https://space.bilibili.com/20165629?from=search&seid=1277417...

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