YouTube-dl source code encoded in two images

Distributing the code is not an issue. It’s keeping development moving when YouTube changes their apis.

Genuine question, how viable is it, if we (code monkeys) created some sort of a blacklist of the entities that are not allowed to use our open source projects? -- something like &quot;We don&#x27;t support Internet Explorer&quot; but a bit more aggressive? like &quot;These entities don&#x27;t understand the Internet, we don&#x27;t support them, they cant use our software&quot;?<p>Maintaining that list would be a ton of work and edge cases tho :&#x2F;

Great, now Imagemagick will receive a DMCA takedown notice! Can someone encode Imagemagick as audio using sox?

Relevant - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18342042\" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18342042\</a><p>JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works

Most countries are being pressured into converging on a global set of copyright laws (among others), so unless we demand and can realise changes <i>in the law</i>, this is going to be a perpetual battle of attrition, and the other side&#x27;s job in done when it becomes inconvenient enough for widespread use. They don&#x27;t need to wipe something out completely.

This recent takedown will only make more people know about YouTube-Dl and hopefully create more forks. When will these big companies learn!?

It&#x27;s still available from a bunch of Linux repositories. As it&#x27;s completely written in Python, you can extract those packages and use the code even on Windows (or MACos, if you&#x27;re into that sort of thing) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.archlinux.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;community&#x2F;any&#x2F;youtube-dl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.archlinux.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;community&#x2F;any&#x2F;youtube-dl&#x2F;</a>

We should start a political movement to stop this tyranny. Like the climate change movement it will take time but at least we will make some progress.

Just for fun, I wrote a little Python script to convert the image files back into the original archive.<p>Use Pillow to read the pixels from each file, and write the RGB values to a new file. Then use the gzip library to uncompress that and create a TAR file. Then I just viewed the TAR file in The V File Viewer.<p>I stopped there because that was enough to show that it worked. I have ImageMagick installed somewhere, but this was more fun.

Original source code is still hosted on their website[1], for now.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube-dl.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube-dl.org&#x2F;</a>.

... but none of the version control history, issues list, pull requests, branches, and whatnot.

So... is there any &#x27;official&#x27; mirror by now? I mean the one that the original author and maintainers are using, not just all possible mirrors created by the community, there are dozens of them of course.

There is a mirror at Gitee: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitee.com&#x2F;mirrors&#x2F;youtube-downloader" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitee.com&#x2F;mirrors&#x2F;youtube-downloader</a>

Side Question : Is there a distributed alternative to github ?

How does it work anyhow? It must do more than `wget` the mp4

Seems like this tweet was also taken down.