Though youtube-dl is taken down in Github it doesn't necessarly mean youtube-dl is going to be unmaintained, or at least the youtube-dl developers are not suddenly disappeared.
What is the authors of youtube-dl's response regarding the takedown?
What is the authors of youtube-dl's response regarding the takedown?
>This is a backup of https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl since it was taken down by the RIAA.
>I'll wait to see what happens with the GitHub repository and the current maintainer before I do anything with this clone.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201014194602/https://github.co...
I am grateful they did it for so long though!
A fairly mundane scraping tool is now a fashionable "punk" project that will "stick it to the Man". Mirroring it is already an act of civil disobedience; developing it you can now explore some interesting problems in the space between the email-only world of Linux kernel development and the centralized Github/Gitlab model (i.e. do for issue-tracking what git did for merging). And it's likely simple enough (it's a python scraper, at the end of the day) that it can mobilize large swaths of developers.
Youtube-dl core developers should double-down on it, right now.
All I've seen so far is a blurb on the website https://youtube-dl.org/
>Currently our dev repository is taken down due to DMCA takedown notice by RIAA.
>Downloads still work as usual.