YouTube-DL Gitlab Backup Repository

Gitlab is not immune to DMCA notices either since it's a US company. The RIAA probably won't try to take it down unless the youtube-dl development is actually relocated there or they become aware of it somehow. You'd have to host it in a country where DMCA can safely be ignored (anonymously of course), e.g. the Netherlands or Russia, if you want it to stay up reliably.

I made a read-only backup on IPFS in the likely case it gets DMCA&#x27;d.<p>git clone <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipfs.io&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;QmVJ6BtoavbWRJwWH8JmTd5Bf6i3zEzsecnBKTMKCX8crj&#x2F;youtube-dl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipfs.io&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;QmVJ6BtoavbWRJwWH8JmTd5Bf6i3zEzsecnBKTM...</a>

While this situation is a reason to look more closely at GitLab due to the ability to host your own instance, why not also look at a solution like Fossile: DVCS, wiki, and issue tracker all in a cross-platform, single executable file?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fossil-scm.org&#x2F;home&#x2F;doc&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;www&#x2F;index.wiki" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fossil-scm.org&#x2F;home&#x2F;doc&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;www&#x2F;index.wiki</a>

Anyone else here think Downloading an executable as root from a URL that follows redirects is a bad idea? Seems like they could break the (Unix) install down into a few more steps that take some caution

I&#x27;ve cloned this to my laptop. I suggest that everyone does the same.

Curious in general how often Youtube breaks things on their end, i.e. how long roughly this specific version of youtube-dl is expected to keep working without any active development?

I with there was an issue tracking thing that you could clone as easily as a git repo. My first thought was email as an ongoing distributed solution, but as far as I know you can&#x27;t just download an archive of issue tickets, bug reports etc into a maildir without a fair amount of faff?

And there is GitCenter, which us git (with issue tracking) over Zeronet (a p2p network)

Any centralized code versioning system can easily be DMCA&#x27;d so does it change anything?

How do you verify this isn&#x27;t malicious? Who is running this repo?