The RIAA is arguing that youtube-dl is illegal because it’s a tool to download copyrighted content. They filed a complaint to Github which took several of its forks down immediately. This could mean it will disappear from the Internet. Time to make a local repo and share it on other channels. They are worried about copyright infringement, but this is actually a very useful program. It is not just used for downloading videos from Youtube. This would not be good if this was taken down, but we could just add another repo on another hosting site and avoid having to use Github. That would be very good indeed. Github is not the only place you can host code, there are alternatives, even hosting your own repo. So just do that and you will be fine. I have found this script very useful for grabbing copies of Anime War before they were taken down. Especially Anime War episode 13. That was well worth downloading. So make a local copy and find a way to host it somewhere else if it is really removed from Github. As many, many people have found it very useful. So we should be able to use it as we wish.
┌─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Documents] └──╼ $ git clone https://github.com/youtube-dl2/youtube-dl.git Cloning into 'youtube-dl'... remote: Enumerating objects: 134286, done. remote: Total 134286 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 134286 Receiving objects: 100% (134286/134286), 55.14 MiB | 4.31 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (93042/93042), done. |
Downloading youtube-dl code to my local machine.
It is a great application, it can be used to download music and videos from Youtube. This is good for building a music collection. So it should continue to be available to use. Not be removed just because of a copyright concern.