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i certainly hope the Streisand effect brings the general public the knowledge that this program exists and proliferate its existence.

Whether the RIAA is acting correctly within the law or not is irrelevant to me. If they are indeed acting correctly within the existing laws, then i would call for civil disobedience against unjust and unfair law.

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The program is useless w/o updates. Knowledge of it does nothing.

No its not. For some sites maybe but not for all their supported sites.

It’s still being updated on their website, just not on GitHub: https://youtube-dl.org/

It would be super nice if they published a copy of their latest git repository. It doesn't need to be anything fancy. Just a .gz file pushed to the website once a day (or week even) would be great.

pip download --no-binary ":all:" youtube-dl

Thank you, but I wasn't very clear. What I'd like is a download including the .git directory, not just a snapshot of the latest code.

Currently you can get it from the author's gitlab: https://gitlab.com/dstftw/youtube-dl , i.e. git clone 'https://gitlab.com/dstftw/youtube-dl.git'

Thank you! I tried that one a few days ago but it hadn't been updated since the github takedown so I incorrectly assumed development was happening elsewhere.

No, it has all the commits from the latest version, the one released after the github takedown.

Thank you.

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