Youtube-dl Github Repo Taken Down

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Impressive!

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You may be interested in this cryptography method - steganography.

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Thanks! :star_struck: I didn’t know about this earlier.

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They discriminate my religion! :japanese_ogre:

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Minus the amp for ya :wink:

It’s funny how these companies never learn.

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I just updated to the latest version (2020.11.12) using pip (Python package installer). For further information visit the tool’s homepage.

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Just a friendly reminder for anyone who reads this advice and decides to install this with pip. Do not use sudo pip. Use pip as a normal user so it doesn’t conflict with your system packages and cause updates to start failing.

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If you do it that way, you will have to adjust $PATH. Installing it as user via pip it will be installed to /$Username/.local/bin/. I chose to remove the AUR package and installed it via pip using sudo to install it in /usr/bin/

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This is generally a bad idea, I would not recommend this.

On Arch-based systems, package managers like pip, npm, gem, etc… should never be used with sudo, as they will conflict with Arch packages installed using pacman. If you have to use them, you should install everything in your home directory, and adjust the PATH variable accordingly.

However, that’s not necessary here: youtube-dl is in the community repo, and it gets updated regularly. I expect 2020.11.12 will be available in a day or two.

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Just don’t use that dirty M$pm :face_vomiting: :laughing:
Same management as GitHub now…

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Using sudo pip on an Arch-based system will be almost guaranteed to break your update process either now or sometime in the future. I have also seen more severe issues caused by this as it can cause Python component mis-matches.

I am not trying to tell you how to manage your own system but I am pointing it out as it is terrible advice to give to someone else. Especially since we have many members here who wouldn’t be able to easily fix the havoc it can cause.

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I just wanted to describe the way I did it. It was not meant to be any kind of advice at all. That’s the reason I mentioned the adjustment of $PATH if you take the user route. Sorry if my statement was not clear.

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I second this. Few days back, I ran some many pip commands with sudo and the next thing I know is that pacman refuses to do anything.

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youtube-dl -U works if you want to use the stand-alone version from the project homepage. No real need to use pip for this.

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sudo youtube-dl -U ?

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It is back up! :smiley:

Seems they removed the references to copy righted material in the unit tests and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) pointed out that they did not circumvent any technical protection measure (TPM), and thus did not violate the DMCA, as Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) claimed.

GitHub might be owned by Microsoft (perhaps still very autonomous?), but seems to have acted in a nice way (from the developers (and users?) point of view) regarding this and have overhauled their DMCA review process to better defend developers and will establish a developer defense fund and donate $1M!

Further reading:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/github-reinstates-youtube-dl-promises-to-overhaul-dmca-reviews/

GREAT SUCCESS! :joy:

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Solution. :point_up_2:

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