youtube-dl is back - Githubissues

dstftw commented 4 years ago

As everybody already knows our dev repository has been reinstated earlier today. You can read the full story here.

We would like to thank @github for standing up for youtube-dl and making it possible to continue development without dropping any features. We appreciate @github for taking potential legal risks in this regard.

We would also like to thank @EFForg and personally @Mitch77 for invaluable legal help.

We would also like to heartily thank our main website hoster Uberspace who is currently being sued in Germany for hosting our essentially business card website and who have already spent thousands of Euros in their legal defense.

We also appreciate massive amount of support received lately and we are sorry we could not physically respond to everybody.

Finally, we would like to thank all youtube-dl users and contributors for using and improving youtube-dl.

Thank you all.

youtube-dl is back!

codehound-00 commented 3 years ago

If this project has been abandoned, maybe it should be archived ? Instead of just doing a Marie-Celeste ?

Pentaphon commented 3 years ago

This entire github page is so eerie. It's as if somebody spooked all the devs and all the users are wondering what happened to them like they are missing persons. While people do think yt-dlp is the answer, the youtube-dl name might be too big for people to leave alone so I think this project might be revived someday and youtube-dl and yt-dlp will become parallel projects as long as everybody involved remains completely anonymous.