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Does it matter if it is?


I can't tell if you're being serious, but yes of course it matters. Youtube-dl got taken down, and all its forks got taken down, so is this project different or is it gone tomorrow because its existence got broadcast on hackernews?

Did it change something that made it not violate fall into the same "this violates DMCA" trap that youtube-dl fall into, so that it's not susceptible to the same takedown?

Because that's interesting and worth learning about.


See elsewhere in the thread for details, but youtube-dl was restored by Github and is generally not considered to be in violation of the DMCA. You can see it on Github here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

A copyright holder abused the DMCA process to take it down the first time.




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