BlacKernelThe youtube-dl DMCA takedown isn't making me think about actually using my Google account. It's just making me decide weather I want to write my own implementation from ffmpeg and awk or, if I can't get youtube-dl reasonably, if I just want to not watch videos that are hosted on youtube.
matrixoflies@blackernel Stallman one time said that we shouldn't rely on services like youtube-dl for this very reason. We should have listened to Stallman on this point.
@matrixoflies > on this point
Very important qualifier, and I think he'd agree 😂
And yeah, I don't RELY on any one technology, and it is why I use open source. I have really bad luck with computers, so I'd prefer that, if everything is going to brake on me, I at least have the option of reaching into the source code to fix it.
@blackernel Perhaps we could arrange an underground project in python.
@matrixoflies Legally, I can neither confirm nor deny my involvement with any possible lua implementations of a generic online video downloader.